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You have a database that tracks orders and deliveries for customers in North America. The database contains
the following tables:
Sales.Customers
Application.Cities
Sales.CustomerCategories
The company’s development team is designing a customer directory application. The application must list
customers by the area code of their phone number. The area code is defined as the first three characters of the
phone number.
The main page of the application will be based on an indexed view that contains the area and phone number
for all customers.
You need to return the area code from the PhoneNumber field.
Solution: You run the following Transact-SQL statement:
Does the solution meet the goal?
A.
Yes
B.
No
Explanation:
The function should return nvarchar(10) and not a TABLE.
https://sqlstudies.com/2014/08/06/schemabinding-what-why/
Explanation of answer is fine but the following reference would be better:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/string-split-transact-sql
TVF can not be used in Indexed View, this is the reason