Posted by jhofmeyr on 11/08/07 16:20

On Nov 6, 10:31 pm, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> (ke...@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.
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 athttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books...
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Hi Kev,

Glad I could help :)

J

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