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What Is AView

A VIEW in SQL Server is a virtual table that presents data from one or more tables without storing it physically in the database. It is defined using a SQL query and requires a unique name within the database. To create a view, the 'CREATE VIEW' statement is used followed by a SELECT query to specify the data to be included.

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What Is AView

A VIEW in SQL Server is a virtual table that presents data from one or more tables without storing it physically in the database. It is defined using a SQL query and requires a unique name within the database. To create a view, the 'CREATE VIEW' statement is used followed by a SELECT query to specify the data to be included.

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What is a View ?

What is a View ?
• A VIEW in SQL Server is like a virtual table that contains data from one or multiple tables.

• It does not hold any data and does not exist physically in the database.

• Similar to a SQL table, the view name should be unique in a database.

• It contains a set of predefined SQL queries to fetch data from the database..

• It can contain database tables from single or multiple databases as well.

• A VIEW does not require any storage in a database because it does not exist physically.
View definition contd..
How to create a View
• CREATE VIEW Name AS

Select column1, Column2...Column N From tables

Where conditions;

• CREATE VIEW EmployeeRecords

AS

SELECT Person.Person.Title, Person.Person.FirstName, Person.Person.LastName,

Person.PersonPhone.PhoneNumber, Person.PhoneNumberType.Name

FROM Person.Person INNER JOIN

Person.PersonPhone ON Person.Person.BusinessEntityID = Person.PersonPhone.BusinessEntityID INNER JOIN

Person.PhoneNumberType ON Person.PersonPhone.PhoneNumberTypeID = Person.PhoneNumberType.PhoneNumber


TypeID

WHERE (Person.Person.Title = N'Mr.')

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