What are the downsides of using SqlServer Views?

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What are the downsides of using SqlServer Views?

I create views frequently to show my data in a denormalized form.

I find it much easier and therefore fas

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My biggest 'gripe' is that ORDER BY does not work in a view. While it makes sense, it is a case which can jump up and bite if not expected. Because of this I have had to switch away from using views to SPROCS (which have more than enough problems of their own) in a few cases where I could not specify an ORDER BY later. (I wish there was a construct with "FINAL VIEW" -- e.g. possibly include order by -- semantics).

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/10/03/sql-server-the-limitations-of-the-views-eleven-and-more/ (Limitation #1 is about ORDER BY :-)