• Just a guess but you might consider looking at your indexes. You probably have an index that covers CE.ID, CA.CustomerID and CA.PostalCode but doesn't include CA.EnglishAddressLine1.

    I did a quick test and I was able to include a computed column in an index. Both as part of the index and as an included column.

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