100 Things I Hate About Views: Undeclared Data Types in Columns
Views let you do dumb things by accident in SQL Server. Then they make you have to think way too hard to fix them.
Views let you do dumb things by accident in SQL Server. Then they make you have to think way too hard to fix them.
Have you ever tried to create an object in SQL Server, but it failed due to a missing table, column, or other dependency? If so, you’ve hit a case where SQL Server doesn’t offer ‘deferred name resolution’.
I learned an interesting thing about ALTER VIEW behavior in SQL Server when applied to indexed views. This is covered in the product documentation, but it’s not something I would have expected.
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