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need suggestions to improve view performance

I am looking to improve the performance of a view in SQL Server 2008. This view exists in a reporting database that is widely used by not-very-technical-folk to basically denormalize all of these ...
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Why not use a table instead of a materialized view?

I'm new to Oracle databases. If I have understood correctly, materialized view is a view which result set is saved as a physical table in the database and this view/table is refreshed bases on some ...
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Performance of Inline-TVF vs. Views

I have a database where i am using inline TVFs (table value functions) instead of views. For example, I might have two tables called [car model] and [car manufacturer] that I'm joining together ...
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Improving performance of nasty nested-view joins

I have a moderate-sized database spread out over a few tables, the rough architecture is: Input Data (Data ID, Session ID and a few fields of statistical importance) Input File (Data ID and a blob) ...
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How do I get the execution plan for a view?

I have a schema with a number of views. I need to check the execution plans to make sure the appropriate indexes are in place and being used. How do I do this? I'd rather not have to copy and paste ...
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Is nested view a good database design?

I have read somewhere long time ago. The book states that we should not allow to having a nested view in SQL Server. I am not sure the reason why we can't do that or I might remember incorrect ...
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Optimizing query using view on EAV structure

An application is writing into a database that follows an EAV structure, similar to this: CREATE TABLE item ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, description TEXT ); CREATE TABLE item_attr ( item ...
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noexpand hint for non-enterpise edition and performance

I have to use Indexed views to reach performance. As I can see from this comparison table standard edition does not support indexed views. But BOL says: Indexed views can be created in any ...