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I have a view that I'd like to apply a full text index on. It of course needs a unique clustered index to allow for the full text index.

Unforunately, I learned that you cannot create an indexed view that contains outer joins. Problem is that my view needs these outer joins!

Is there a way to make this happen, or am I going to be stuck writing a complex stored procedure?

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Is it possible to create a dummy record to join to for the purposes of this view?

Antony
Yes, that would definitely work. It would require some work to re-architect, but is probably the only solution for indexing the view. I'll mark you as correct, but I did end up going the stored procedure route, which turned out to be not so bad!
ScottE