[SOLUTION] cte and where condition

cte and where condition

My code runs as below(more columns are there but eliminated for space )

Create function Getresults(@adminID varchar(20),@adminrole int,@condition nvarchar(max))
returns table
as
(
Select a.tno,
            case @adminrole
                when 1 then 1
                when 3 then
                case
                 when a.status in('setup','process') then 1 else 0
                end
          end as rolestatus,

         case when a.requestortype ='bulkprocess' then 'N/A' 
                 else a.requestorno 
         end as requestorno,
         case when (fnallowedstate(@adminid) = 1 then 'active' else 'inactive'as state,
         b.starttime,
         b.endtime
from Rules A join ruledetails B on a.ruleid = b.ruleid(this is guid)
where @adminrole in(1,3,2,4)

)

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i want to add more conditions to the where clause but the conditions are based on the calculated columns in the above query. like

where @adminrole in(1,3,2,4) and state = 'active', I created a CTE and added the condition. but that is not being accepted as part of code review. reason being CTEs cannot be optimized and they take lot of memory. The query returns around 300,000 rows with out second condition in where clause.

If i take the result of above query in a temp table or query the function result i can achieve what i need.But this is taking some time which i wanted to eliminate. i wanted to avoid retrieving unwanted rows in the first place. How to go about this without CTE?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks for your time.

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Duy PhamFreelance IT ConsultantCommented: 2015-04-16

Would it possible to use a sub query instead? Sample pseudo code could be like:

SELECT  <final_result_columns>
FROM (
    SELECT  <columns>
    FROM Rules
    WHERE  <some_conditions_to_filter_out_unwanted_rows>
) beforeFinalResultSet
WHERE <some_conditions>

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