The solution is to use SQL views, materialized views, or create a new table that contains only the filtered data the user needs.

Why are there INFOMATION_SCHEMA and catalog views in SQL Server that do very similar things? For example, to retrieve a list of tables in a database, I can do it via sys.tables or INFORMATION ...

The key feature of a SQL view is that both SQL Server and Entity Framework have a great deal of difficulty in telling the difference between a view and a table. The major difference between views and ...

Indexed Views were introduced in SQL Server 2000 as an Enterprise Edition feature. The confusion arose in SQL Server 2005 when it appeared that all editions supported Indexed Views.

When executed, a PROC SQL view's output can be a subset or superset of one or more underlying files. Beginning in Version 7, you can reference a simple PROC SQL view to update its underlying data. SAS ...

A Version 6 PROC SQL Pass-Through view does not need to be updated to be used in Version 7 or Version 8. The conversion of PROC SQL Pass-Through views is automatic and does not require you to use the ...

I'm using MSSQL Server 2000. Is it possible to use SET statements in views. I need to use SET ARITHIGNORE ON & SET ARITHABORT OFF to allow a divide/0 to return null (which I can change to 0 using ...

A reader recently pointed out to me that I could drastically simplify that retrieval code by leveraging SQL views. A SQL view pulls together multiple tables (and selected columns from those tables) ...