December 2020
Beginner
640 pages
14h 45m
English
Views
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
—FYODOR MIKHAYLOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY
Determining and Defining 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. ...