Introduction
You would have already heard about views in databases. We create views for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons for using views is simplicity. Instead of writing complex queries again and again, you can just write a reusable view which fetches data from the underlying base tables. Another important reason for using views is security. If you don’t want to grant user privileges to the entire table, you can create a view instead which simplifies the process by letting you grant access directly to this view instead of the table. That said, views have certain limitations. The queries used in views have to fetch data from the underlying base tables which is not optimal when dealing with a huge number of rows. There is a strong likelihood of unnecessary I\O which would lead to poor database performance. Read More