Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/06/07 22:31

(kevin@nu-urbanmusic.co.uk) writes:
> anyway.. so in SQL Server managment studio i found the "Views" section
> (sorta like tempory tables i presume) and popped this into a new one
> call kev_bin.

Views are just a logical concept. Except for indexed view, they are not
materialised, and they are expanded so that the optimizer works with the
expanded query. That is, essentiall a macro.


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