SQL: Do Indexed Views really require Enterprise Edition of SQL Server?
According to Wikipedia, Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” In this case, they’re correct because the answer is no. But as with most things in this industry, there are subtle issues with that answer.
In SQL Server, a view is just a SELECT statement that’s been given a name. That’s pretty much it. No data is stored, and every time you access the view, the query optimizer expands the view into the surrounding query. By the time you get to an execution plan, the view is nowhere to be found.
2019-04-19
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