sknox (2/10/2012)

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BTW, now that I am posting anyway - there is one word in the explanation is wrong: "The query optimizer in lower editions will only consider the indexed view if you use the NOEXPAND table hint" (emphasis mine) - this is incorrect. With the NOEXPAND hint, the optimizer will not consider the indexed view; this hint forces the optimizer to use the indexed view. Enterprise edition (and developer edition) is the only place where the optimizer will consider the indexed view as one of multiple options, and choose the cheapest.

Yes, that is incorrect, but I think you've picked the wrong word(s) to correct. The intended meaning was "The query optimizer in lower editions will only consider the indexes on the view if you use the NOEXPAND table hint." The reason I used the word consider is that NOEXPAND does not force the use of a particular index, it only tells SQL server not to refer back to the original table.