Downsides to “WITH SCHEMABINDING” in SQL Server?

Question

I have a database with hundreds of awkwardly named tables in it (CG001T, GH066L, etc), and I have views on every one with its \"friendly\" name (the view \"CUSTOMERS\" is \"SELE

Answer 1

One downside is that if you schemabind a view, it can only reference other schemabound views.

I know this because I tried to schemabind a view and was met with an error message telling me it could not be schemabound because one of the other views it references is not also schemabound.

The only consequence of this is that if you suddenly want to update a schemabound view to reference some new or existing view, you might have to schemabind that new or existing view as well. In that case, you won't be able to update the view, and you better hope your database developers know how to work with schemabound views.