What are Optimizer Statistics? Databases for Developers: Performance #2

To choose an execution plan, the optimizer needs to estimate how many rows it'll read from each table.
But what does it base these estimates on?
The table statistics!
Watch this video to learn what these are and how they affect execution plans.
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