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BUG #: 364221 (SHILOH_BUGS)
After you upgrade to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3, the SQL Server query optimizer may incorrectly estimate the cost for queries that involve a predicate that uses a NOT EXISTS (<subquery>) construct. The estimate will be too high, and results in poorly performing queries as compared to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2.
Service pack information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
290211 How to obtain the latest SQL Server 2000 service pack
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