Hour 20. Creating and Using Views and Synonyms

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

What views are

How views are used

Views and security

Storing views

Creating views

Joining views

Data manipulation in a view

Performance of nested views

What synonyms are

Managing synonyms

Creating synonyms

Dropping synonyms

In 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. This hour also includes a discussion on synonyms.

What Is a View?

A view is a virtual table. That is, a view looks like a table and acts like a table as far as a user is concerned, but it doesn’t require physical storage. A view is ...

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