Update: Please read the summary post of all the 11 Limitations of the view SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more… Recently, I was about the limitations of views. I started to make a list and realized that there are many limitations of the views. Let…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY
Today we will go over a very simple, but interesting subject. The following error is quite common if you use ORDER BY while creating any view: Msg 1033, Level 15, State 1, Procedure something, Line 5 The ORDER BY clause is invalid in views, inline functions, derived tables, subqueries, and…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries
Working with SQL Server has never seems to be monotonous – no matter how long one has worked with it. Quite often, I come across some excellent comments that I feel like acknowledging them as blog posts. Recently, I wrote an article on SQL SERVER – Execution Plan and Results…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Outer Join in Indexed View – Question to Readers
Today I have question for you. Just a day ago I was reading whitepaper Improving Performance with SQL Server 2008 Indexed Views. Following is question and answer I read in the white paper. Q. Why can’t I use OUTER JOIN in an indexed view? A. Rows can logically disappear from…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Stored Procedure to display code (text) of Stored Procedure, Trigger, View or Object
This is another popular question I receive. How to see text/content/code of Stored Procedure. System stored procedure that prints the text of a rule, a default, or an unencrypted stored procedure, user-defined function, trigger, or view. Syntax sp_helptext @objname = 'name' sp_helptext [ @objname = ] 'name' [ , […
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Restrictions of Views – T SQL View Limitations
UPDATE: (5/15/2007) Thank you Ben Taylor for correcting errors and incorrect information from this post. He is Database Architect and writes Database Articles at www.sswug.org.
I have been coding as T-SQL for many years. I never have to use view ever in my career. I do not see in my near future I am using Views. I am able to achieve same database architecture goal using either using Third Normal tables, Replications or other database design work around.SQL Views have many many restrictions. There are few listed below. I love T-SQL but I do not like using Views.