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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

by Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew, Arie D. Jones
May 2008
Beginner
504 pages
8h 34m
English
Sams
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Chapter 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 will 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

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 actually a composition of a table in the form of a predefined ...

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