what is view? types of views?

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what is view? types of views?..

Answer / k naveen kumar

View is mirror image to the base table(main table) i,e it is
a logical pointer to the base table.
for the view it does not occupy space for the data but it
occupy space for the structure
Two types of views
1) simple 2) complex view
simple view created on single table
complex view created on multiple tables.

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what is view? types of views?..

Answer / arangaraj

A view is a tailored presentation of the data.contained in
one or more tables or other view.it takes the o/p of a
query and treat it as a table. it does n't require any
space in database.

ex.create view emp1 as select empno,empname from emp;

types of view:Materialised view.

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what is view? types of views?..

Answer / arkchowdary

A view is, in essence, a virtual table. It does not
physically exist. Rather, it is created by a query joining
one or more tables.

Creating a VIEW
The syntax for creating a VIEW is:

CREATE VIEW view_name AS
SELECT columns
FROM table
WHERE predicates;

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