Relation between Statistics and Indexes on a table - response (1) by dnoeth

Hi Mahesh,
this is just a misleading error message, it should be rephrased to match the error for single column statistics: 
"6956 Column xxx has statistics and cannot be dropped or modified."
Before TD14 a multi-column statistic is stored as a pseudo-index in dbc.indexes, which might be the cause.
So simply drop the stats before you drop the column.
 
Dieter