[SGVLUG] Probably more "dev" related, but a question on databases...

[Jeremy Leader]

Emerson, Tom (*IC) wrote:
> ... doesn't a "view" imply
> extra processing and/or storage to support the view?  [i.e., a "temporary"
> table built and populated with a copy of the data]

My understanding was that in Oracle, a "materialized view" was one that actually 
created a table; normal views were more like canned queries.  I don't know if 
this is the case in all databases, though.

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Jeremy Leader
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