Hour 20. Creating and Using Views and Synonyms

During this hour, you learn about performance, as well as how to create and drop views, how to use views for security, and how to provide simplicity in data retrieval for end users and reports. You also read a discussion on synonyms.

The highlights of this hour include

  • What views are

  • How views are used

  • Views and security

  • Storage of views

  • Creating views

  • Joining views

  • Data manipulation in a view

  • What synonyms are

  • Managing synonyms

  • Creation of synonyms

  • Dropping synonyms

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