Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/12/07 08:40

(colabus@gmail.com) writes:
> I've been asked to re-write a sql view. The view itself contains
> several calls to other views (embedded). Is there a way to get around
> using embedded views. I've written the same query up using temp.
> tables but obviously temp. tables can't be used in views?
>
> Is there any special things I should be looking for?

You could always incorporate the view definition directly into the
query that composes the view, and take care to exclude columns or
tables that are not relevant for the view. If you feel that temp tables
makes the query more efficient, you could make the view a multi-statement
function.

Without knowledge about the views, and why you have been asked to rewrite
it, it's difficult to give a very exact answer.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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