>That would mean a view on a SQL table wouldn't work if it ended up retrieving over 2GB - can that be correct? I'm surprised I haven't heard anyone complain yet...
Yes, I think this is so.
>(and yes, it's millions of records - very few, very small fields)
Pressumably, it wouldn't be a frequent problem, because quite often, if using a view, you would select relevant data, and not all the data.
BTW, you would have the same problem if you select data into a remote view, from a database server that might support many TB or PB of data!
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