title: SQL Server view takes a long time to alter but query itself finishes quickly?
body: <p>I am trying to alter an existing view in my SQL Server database.  When I run the query by itself it finishes in about 4 seconds.  When I run the alter statement with the same query it runs and never finishes (waited 15 minutes before stopping it).</p>
  
  <p>I do not have any indexes on the view I am trying to alter.  Any ideas what would cause something like this to happen?  Is there something I should be doing differently to speed things up?</p>