indexed views... how to set up?

I've heard SQL2K can have indexed views, but I havent seen any place to set
up the indexes (in the GUI)...
so, A) is it only scriptable and B) does it really help?
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Eric Newton
eric.at.ensoft-software.com
www.ensoft-software.com
C#/ASP.net Solutions developerYes, it can. See the white paper
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/indexedviews1.asp
for details or SQL Server Books Online topics Designing an Indexed View and
Creating an Indexed View.
There's no special GUI for indexed views because it's really nothing more
than a creating regular view (see the white paper for
requirements/restrictions) and then creating a clustered index on that
view. I haven't tried it, but you should be able to use the normal GUI for
creating views and indexes in Enterprise Manager to do both of these tasks.
Whether or not they help depends, of course, on your situation. If you have
existing views that do a lot of table joins or aggregates data, then indexed
views may significantly improve the performance of those views. However,
you'll also be using more disk space because the result set of the view is
actually materialized and stored in the leaf level of the clustered index
just like a clustered index on a table. Plus the index will be maintained
whenever the underlying base table(s) are modified. The white paper goes
into more details on the pros and cons.
HTH,
Gail Erickson [MS]
SQL Server Doc Team
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"Eric Newton" <eric@.ensoft-software.com> wrote in message
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> I've heard SQL2K can have indexed views, but I havent seen any place to
set
> up the indexes (in the GUI)...
> so, A) is it only scriptable and B) does it really help?
>
> --
> Eric Newton
> eric.at.ensoft-software.com
> www.ensoft-software.com
> C#/ASP.net Solutions developer
>