The ALTER VIEW statement regenerate an existing view by altering a reference type column to add a scope. The ALTER VIEW statement also enables or disables a view for use in query optimization.
Following is the view alteration syntax.
ALTER VIEW view-name
ALTER column column-name ADD SCOPE table-name
[ENABLE/DISABLE QUERY OPTIMIZATION] |
You use the ALTER VIEW command to regenerate an invalid view after altering one of the base tables to ensure that the view continues to be valid.
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