View

A view is like a derived table, but instead of it only living within the context of a single query, it exists more in perpetuity

  • in other words, it is the result set of a stored query
  • users of the database can query the view just as they would query any other table

A view is a table-like object whose contents are the results of some query.

While a view is a virtualized table that represents the result of a particular db query, when a query is made against a view, that query is converted into a query that can be made against the base table (in other words, the underlying base table(s) that the view is based off of)


Children
  1. Materialized View