VIEWs are an undervalued and underused feature in SQL. They basically consist of a query that has been given a name, and a parameter list, so can be used like an inline macro. Technically, you’re supposed to think of it as a virtual table.
2025-10-20
VIEWs are an undervalued and underused feature in SQL. They basically consist of a query that has been given a name, and a parameter list, so can be used like an inline macro. Technically, you’re supposed to think of it as a virtual table.
2025-09-22
An updatable view in SQL Server is a view that allows modifications such as INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE operations on the underlying tables through the view.
2024-04-22
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2024-08-05 (first published: 2024-02-26)
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This article explores how to create and use views in SQL Server 2019 using SSMS.
2021-12-27
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Learn about the concept of views in SQL, and how they work. Read on to see clear examples of how to implement views.
2020-06-30
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In this tip we look at how to insert and delete data via SQL Server views.
2020-01-13
You find you are querying a vendor supported database where you're not allowed to make any collation changes, and which has a weird collation setup: default DB collation that matches your server and other databases all character related columns are explicitly a different collation that does not match your DB or server collation Rather than […]
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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