Automatic Query Plan Recompilation
SQL Server attempts to reuse existing execution plans for stored procedures, but certain operations cause the execution plans to become inefficient or invalid. In these cases, a new execution plan needs to be recompiled on the next execution of the stored procedure. The following conditions cause a plan to be invalidated:
Whenever there is a change to the schema of a referenced table or view
When an index for a referenced table is dropped or changed
When the statistics used by an execution plan have been updated, ...
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