One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers ... You can assume the query isn't running long because it's being blocked. If the query was being blocked according to sp_who2 or sp ...

The view definition is stored by SQL Server so that it can be used as a virtual table to ... just a stored query definition in the database with no data of its own until it is run, how can you ...

A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and ... the database engine to execute that query over vast amounts of stored information and extract the most relevant table.