View vs. Table Valued Function vs. Multi-Statement Table Valued Function
About five years ago, I was checking an app before it went to production. I hadn’t seen the app before then and a junior dba had worked with the developers designing and building the app. It didn’t use...
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Unpacking the View
A view is simply a query that behaves something like a table. Most people know this. Most people also know that a view is simply a mask on top of what might be a very complex query. It all seems really...
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Views and Simplification
I’ve been getting lots of questions on views lately. Must be something in the water. Because SQL Server allows you to treat a view as if it was a table, lots of people pretty much assume that it is a...
View ArticleA View Is Not A Table
Blog post #4 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel In SQL Server, in the T-SQL you use to query it, a view looks just like a table (I’m using the AdventureWorks2014 database for all...
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Stored Procedures Are Not Faster Than Views
A performance tuning tip I saw recently said, “Views don’t perform as well as stored procedures.” <sigh> Let’s break this down, just a little. Definitions A view is nothing but a query. The...
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