A view provides a different way of looking at the data in one or more tables. View is a virtual table consisting of a SQL SELECT statement that accesses data from one or more tables or views.
A view contains rows and columns, just like a real table. The fields in a view are fields from one or more real tables in the database.
Following is the view creation syntax.
CREATE VIEW view-name AS query |
Where, Query means any SQL SELECT statement.
Create a view named VW_PROJECT upon the TB_PROJECT table that contains only those rows with a project number (PROJECT_NO) starting with the letters 'SP'.
CREATE VIEW VW_PROJECT AS SELECT * FROM TB_PROJECT WHERE SUBSTR(PROJECT_NO, 1, 2) = 'SP' |
We can query the view above as follows:
SELECT * FROM [VW_PROJECT]; |
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