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Excellent article, however, I'm sure the value of indexed views can be communicated just as effectively without preaching to us about denormalization...which seems to be the author's real point of contention.

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Of course, but that would probably make it just another copy-paste from Books Online, or at least a recap of probably a lot of other articles out there about indexed views.

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