Issues with Window Functions and Views / Derived Tables

Paul White takes us through some of the difficulties you are liable to see when using window functions in views and derived tables:

Our expectation is that the execution plan for this new query will be exactly the same as before we created the view. The query optimizer should be able to push the product filter specified in the WHERE clause down into the view, resulting in an index seek.

We need to stop and think a bit at this point, however. The query optimizer can only produce execution plans that are guaranteed to produce the same results as the logical query specification. Is it safe to push our WHERE clause into the view?

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