David Kerr wrote:
create view test as select a,b,c,d,e,f,g from testtable; select a from test; (does the engine retrieve b-g?)
Shouldn't - the query just gets rewritten macro-style. I don't think it eliminates joins if you don't need any columns, but that's not possible without a bit of analysis.
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