SQL views make accessing multiple data types and storing complex queries easier whereas materialized views can help you improve efficiency and boost performance.

When a PROC SQL query contains subqueries or inline views, the innermost query is evaluated first. In this example, data is retrieved from the SYBASE EMPLOYEES table and returned to the subquery for ...

Note: If you specify the NUMBER option in the PROC SQL statement when you create your view, the ROW column appears in the output. However, you cannot order by the ROW column in subsequent queries. See ...

If you find yourself taking the same subset of data from a big table and running smaller queries against it, you can speed things up for yourself and others by persisting the subset elsewhere, and ...

does not take up any space in the database. In fact, a view really doesn’t do anything until you query it. Indexed views In SQL Server 2000 and 2005, you have the ability to add indexes to views.

SQL Server 2022 takes that ability a few steps further. Last year, I wrote a column on the introduction of query store hints into Azure SQL Database.

Probably for a query that your application runs occasionally, in-memory processing of JSON data might still be an option. In general, though, querying through JSON-dedicated functions and letting SQL ...