Indexing a view that contains text or ntext

I've created a view and started to create my first index (unique, clustered)
but got the following error:
"Cannot create index on view 'MyDB.dbo.myview'. It contains text, ntext,
image or xml columns. (Mircrosoft SQL Server, Error: 1492)"
There is only one field among the fields I'm using that is ntext.
Unfortunately I don't see how I can change it's data type since the largest
number of characters in this field is over 22,000 characters. What are my
options for creating indexes on this view? Is there a workaround that I can
do? Any suggestions?Hi
From BOL: "Note Columns consisting of the ntext, text, or image data types
cannot be specified as columns for an index. In addition, a view cannot
include any text, ntext, or image columns, even if they are not referenced i
n
the CREATE INDEX statement."
Therefore with your current view you can not create an index. Does this
column need to be in the view?
John
"archuleta37" wrote:

> I've created a view and started to create my first index (unique, clustere
d)
> but got the following error:
> "Cannot create index on view 'MyDB.dbo.myview'. It contains text, ntext,
> image or xml columns. (Mircrosoft SQL Server, Error: 1492)"
> There is only one field among the fields I'm using that is ntext.
> Unfortunately I don't see how I can change it's data type since the larges
t
> number of characters in this field is over 22,000 characters. What are my
> options for creating indexes on this view? Is there a workaround that I ca
n
> do? Any suggestions?