This works as you want on Enterprise Edition: use tempdb go CREATE TABLE dbo.T (id int PRIMARY KEY, b bit NOT NULL, txt varchar(20)); GO CREATE OR ALTER VIEW dbo.V WITH SCHEMABINDING AS SELECT T.Id, T.txt FROM dbo.T AS T WHERE T.b = 1; GO CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX idx_V ON dbo.V (Id); GO UPDATE V SET txt = 'Foo'; The update has this plan [![enter image description here][1]][1] running Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (RTM-CU8) (KB4577194) - 15.0.4073.23 (X64) Sep 23 2020 16:03:08 Copyright (C) 2019 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows 10 Pro 10.0 <X64> (Build 19042: ) (Hypervisor) You can add a feedback item [here][2] to request that NOEXPAND be supported on UPDATE queries. I put in a [PR][3] to update the docs to clarify that NOEXPAND is not available on UPDATE. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/SudEg.png [2]: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/908035-sql-server [3]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sql-docs/pull/5854