Using MySQL views

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Advantages and restrictions of using views Creating, altering and dropping views Algorithms of views Setting security configuration, SQL SECURITY and DEFINER properties Updatable views View metadata

A view – is a database object based on a SELECT query that has tables or other views specified inside it. In other words, this is a named query that is stored in a database as a separate object. Unlike a table, a view is not a data storage.

When referring to a view, we just receive data that is returned by the internal SELECT query.