reducing DB size

  • Jeff Moden (1/26/2012)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/25/2012)


    True, you can use views of synonyms. That might work, although performance wouldn't be great.

    For dev/test, it's probably fine.

    I've not experienced any noticiable slowdowns with inter-db synonyms or passthrough views. The code for them is evaluated in the execution plan as if they were a part of the original query much like an iTVF or derived table is. Are you sure you're not thinking of "Linked Servers" which would provide a slowdown?

    I've had it vary by version, perhaps not an issue in 2008, but I have seen slowdowns in inserts/updates at times. I suspect it might be workload dependent, but it seems that the cross database queries sometimes don't seem to get the same performance when they're joining tables across databases.

  • This is only for Test environment

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