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What is a View in SQL Server?
You can think of a view either as a compiled sql query or a virtual table. As a
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query a view, you actually retrieve the data from the underlying base tables.

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Or 
When do you usually use views?
1. Views can be used to implement row level and column level security.

Example 1: Consider the tblEmployee table below. I don't want some of the
users to have access to the salary column, but they should still be able to
access ID, NAME and DEPT columns. If I grant access to the table, the users
will be able to see all the columns. So, to achieve this, I can create a view as
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Views ‐ Part 1
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on Joins
Explain Inner Join with an example
Explain Left Outer Join with an
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example
Listing 1 
Create View      vWEmployee 
As 
Select               ID, Name, Dept 
From                 tblEmployee
Example 2: Let us say, we have a few users who should be able to access only
IT employee details and not any other dept. To do this, I can create a view as
shown in Listing 2 below. Now, grant access only to the view and not the table.
So using views we can provide row level security as well. 
Listing 2 
Create View     vWITEmployees 
As 
Select              ID, Name, Dept 
From                tblEmployee 
Where              Dept = 'IT'
2. Simplify the database schema to the users. You can create a view based on
multiple tables which join columns from all these multiple tables so that they look
like a single table.
3. Views can be used to present aggregated and summarized data.
Example 1: Consider the tblEmployee table above. I want to aggregate the data
as shown in the image below. To do this I can create a view as shown in Listing
3. Now, you can simply issue a select query against the view rather than writing
a complex query every time you want to retrieve the aggregated data.

Explain Full Outer Join with an

example

Explain Self Join with an example

What is the difference between Index
Scan and Index Seek
Write a SQL Query to delete from a
table that is involved in a SQL join
What are the advantages of using
stored procedures
Listing 3 
Select        Dept, Count(*) As Total  
From          tblEmployee 
Group By   Dept 
 
If you can think of any other advantages of using views please post them
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Anonymous February 12, 2012 at 4:30 AM
Write a Stored Procedure that takes
column name as a parameter and Some of other advantages of views...
returns the result sorted by the
column that is passed 1) Combines complex tables and can have required columns
from them.
What is deferred name resolution in 2) Index can be created on views (indexed Views) for faster
SQL Server? data retrieval.
3) View can be encrypted..make sure to store the source to
decrypt later.
4) Views can be granted to the user for access instead of
providing access of related tables used in it.
5) Parametrized views can be created using Inline UDF.
6) View can be materialized when indexed.

‐‐JP
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Anonymous July 19, 2012 at 1:39 AM

Very nice.... :)
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Bhagabat Dayal Dash January 7, 2016 at 7:14 PM

What is the different between the stored procedure and view
and use.
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Anonymous January 23, 2016 at 9:17 AM

WITH SCHEMABINDING can be used in Views and T‐SQL
Functions, but not in Stored Procedures.

Objects that are schema bound can have their definition

changed, but objects that are referenced by schema bound
objects cannot have their definition changed.
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