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Fixing Aggregate Performance with Indexed Views

Erik Darling makes a proposal:

So, here’s where indexed views are tough: THERE ARE SO MANY RESTRICTIONS ON THEM IT’S ABSURD.

They are borderline unusable. Seriously, read through the list of “things you can’t do” I linked to up there, and note the utter scarcity of “possible workarounds”.

Aside from that, indexed views often are counter-productive, as Erik shows.