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SQL Server FAQs - Understanding and Managing Views
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A collection of 21 FAQs on SQL Server database views. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on creating and dropping views; defining and viewing view columns; creating views from multiple tables; inserting, updating and deleting data in underlying tables; creating schema binding view; creating indexes on views.
Topics included in this FAQ are:
- 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?
Please note that all answers and tutorials are based on MS SQL Server 2005.
To follow tutorials in this collection, you should connect to SQL server
as a regular user who has enough permissions to run simple Transact-SQL statements.
To follow tutorial exercises in this collection, you need to use test tables created
from previous tutorial collections.
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