>>>Post your code and I bet someone can spruce it up.
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>>It's way too complex for anyone to just look at and see what's wrong; I'm still untangling it. There's an SP that refers to several views. The view that seems to be the chief villain uses a couple of other views. At the moment, I think the key issue is a self-join involving an enormous table, but I'm not even sure that's the main problem.
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>>Tamar
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>Take a look at this blog post
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>http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DBProgramming/MSSQLServer/t-sql-wednesday-21-t

Thanks. I will.

Tamar