David Ziffer (10/17/2010)
Nowhere did I propose that anyone construct a view and a table which when queried directly display the same content. .
No. However you did say
At some point we are potentially going to want to name one thing "table X" and another thing "view X", and the only difference in the names will be whatever we choose to designate something as being a "view" vs. "table".
and it seems absolutely clear to me that if you do that you have some real confusion about what your "X" is.
Tom