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Database Design for Mere Mortals: 25th Anniversary Edition, 4th Edition
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Database Design for Mere Mortals: 25th Anniversary Edition, 4th Edition

by Michael J. Hernandez
December 2020
Beginner
640 pages
14h 45m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Views

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

—FYODOR MIKHAYLOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY

Topics Covered in This Chapter

What Are Views?

Anatomy of a View

Determining and Defining Views

Example: Determining and Defining Views

Summary

Review Questions

What Are Views?

As you learned in Chapter 3, “Terminology,” a view is a virtual table composed of fields from one or more tables in the database; it can also include fields from other views. The tables that comprise a given view are known as the view’s base tables. A view is “virtual” because it draws data from base tables rather than storing data on its own. ...

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