Chapter III.8. Taking Advantage of Views
Views are powerful objects in SQL Server that allow you to focus on exactly what you want to see within a database. They can be used to show just a few specific columns from a table, or multiple columns from two or more tables.
While views sound a little magical at first, they're really quite simple. If you can create a query, you can create a view.
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