SQL views evaluate the data in the tables underlying the view’s definition when they’re queried. So, the benefit of using SQL views is that they always return the latest data.

The key feature of a SQL view is that both SQL Server and Entity Framework have a great deal of difficulty in telling the difference between a view and a table. The major difference between views and ...

yes, use the info_schema views because they are 'standard' and the system tables are not. They should also be easier to deal with than the system tables [at least in my experience].

This saves memory when you have a large view, but need to select only a small portion of the data contained in the view. PROC SQL views do not use DATA step programming. PROC SQL views can combine ...

I'm using MSSQL Server 2000. Is it possible to use SET statements in views. I need to use SET ARITHIGNORE ON & SET ARITHABORT OFF to allow a divide/0 to return null (which I can change to 0 using ...

I had to re-start SQL Server for the changes to take effect. After the SQL Server had finished restarting, I went back to the SQL Server Configuration Manager, double-clicked TCP/IP and got the TCP ...

A reader recently pointed out to me that I could drastically simplify that retrieval code by leveraging SQL views. A SQL view pulls together multiple tables (and selected columns from those tables) ...