This article explores the internals of materialized views and demonstrates how to precompute complex aggregates—having Oracle dynamically rewrite SQL to reference precomputed aggregate information.

PROC SQL allows you to specify the ORDER BY clause in the CREATE VIEW statement. Every time a view is accessed, its data are sorted and displayed as specified by the ORDER BY clause. This sorting on ...

Note: It is recommended that you not include an ORDER BY clause in a CREATE VIEW statement. This causes the output data to be sorted every time the PROC SQL view is submitted and might have a negative ...