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SQL Server FAQ - CREATE VIEW - Creating a View on an Existing Table
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How To Create a View on an Existing Table?
If you want to a view on an existing table, you can use the CREATE VIEW statement
in a simple syntax:
CREATE VIEW view_name AS SELECT ...
The tutorial exercise below shows you how to create a view
to represent sub set of data stored in fyi_links table:
USE FyiCenterData;
GO
CREATE VIEW fyi_links_top AS
SELECT id, counts, url FROM fyi_links
WHERE counts > 100;
GO
SELECT TOP 10 * FROM fyi_link_top;
GO
id counts url
------ ------- -----------------------------------------
7600 237946 eyfndw jdt lee ztejeyx l q jdh k
19437 222337 eypx u x
55924 1877 eyq ntohxe i rtnlu riwaskzp cucoa dva c
63742 121330 ezdaeh mmgmo vaai meytbjjv f jixfsdjw pw
92455 945262 ezlmyenrw dyeb
36391 41386 f
87433 977726 f
7180 559314 f kqbqlej s xixuurcgg lh r dqqvqsstxw
2252 702033 f bkh jy sqrkttuoarxmfp idqyhyy tme d
1228 146283 f m asukh
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- What Are Views?
- How To Create a View on an Existing Table?
- How To See Existing Views?
- How To Drop Existing Views from a Database?
- How To Get a List of Columns in a View using "sys.columns"?
- How To Get a List of Columns in a View using the "sp_columns" Stored Procedure?
- How To Get a List of Columns in a View using the "sp_help" Stored Procedure?
- How To Generate CREATE VIEW Script on an Existing View?
- How To Get the Definition of a View Out of the SQL Server?
- Can You Create a View with Data from Multiple Tables?
- Can You Create a View using Data from Another View?
- What Happens If You Delete a Table That Is Used by a View?
- Can You Use ORDER BY When Defining a View?
- How To Modify the Underlying Query of an Existing View?
- Can You Insert Data into a View?
- Can You Update Data in a View?
- Can You Delete Data from a View?
- How To Assign New Column Names in a View?
- How Column Data Types Are Determined in a View?
- How To Bind a View to the Schema of the Underlying Tables?
- How To Create an Index on a View?
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