title: What are the downsides of using SqlServer Views?
body: <p>What are the downsides of using SqlServer Views?  </p>
  
  <p>I create views frequently to show my data in a denormalized form. </p>
  
  <p>I find it much easier and therefore faster, less error prone, and more self documenting, to query one of these joins rather than to generate complex queries with complicated joins between many tables. Especially when I am analyzing the same data (many same fields, same table joins) from different angles.   </p>
  
  <p>But is there a cost to creating and using these views?</p>
  
  <p>Am I slowing down (or speeding up?) query processing? </p>