>>My suggestion was purely aesthetic, >>being the logical equivalent, it is very >>unlikely that the plan executive changes. >>You can try to using the optimization wizard, >>and see if some statistics and some index provides >>a most efficient plan. > >Where is the optimization wizard exactly? > >Usually, what I do, is to remove the related indexes. Then, the execution plan will propose one in green. If I can obtain the same without loosing existing indexes, that would be great.