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Table of Contents
Foreword ..........................................................xv
Acknowledgments .................................................xvii
Introduction ............................................................xxi
1 Views...................................................1
What Are Views?......................................................1
ORDER BY in a View...................................................3
Refreshing Views .....................................................6
Modular Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Updating Views .....................................................16
View Options .......................................................20
ENCRYPTION ..................................................20
SCHEMABINDING ..............................................20
CHECK OPTION ................................................22
VIEW_METADATA ..........................................23
Indexed Views ......................................................24
Conclusion .........................................................29
2 User-Defined Functions ..................................31
Some Facts About UDFs ..............................................31
Scalar UDFs .........................................................32
T-SQL Scalar UDFs ..............................................32
Performance Issues .............................................34
UDFs Used in Constraints ........................................40
CLR Scalar UDFs ................................................43
SQL Signature ..................................................57
Table-Valued UDFs...................................................63
Inline Table-Valued UDFs ........................................64
Split Array .....................................................66
