>Bit confused here. Is the SQL faster or the view?
> The QUERY taxes the network an order of magnitude less than the View.
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>Anyways, using a view also reads from the database. If the database is on the network, it is expected that reading from the view is slower. But there is more to it. If you specify a database(!) prefix in the from clause it is reading more from the network than when reading from an already open alias.
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> I removed the SN! but it didn't seem to make any difference.

Make the DBC readonly and it should be the same. The view is reading from the DBC, causing the extra network trafic. By making it readonly the DBC can be cached.