Do View contain Data ?
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Answer / nilesh
No , View Do not contain data, instead it contains the SQL
Statement Only.
When we issue statement as select * from <VIEWNAME>
it executes the query to get the rows from the underlying
table on which it is been created.
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Answer / lokanath
View is basically a Stored Query. we can call it as Logical
representaion of table. View Doesnot contain data. But
Materialized view Contains data. Because Materialised view
contains results of a Query.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 13 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / kumar
No, view do mot contain data. it contains only the SQL
Statement.
When we try to fetch the data from view , it internally
hits the table and get the data from the table.
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Answer / raghu
Views do not contain data...answer#1 is wrong.
Instead materialized views contain data.
..Raghu
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Answer / ab
View do not contain data.
when u query view it featches the data from the underlaying
table on which view is created.
v$ views are created in X$ base tables
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / kumar swamy naidu
physically does not contain any data but logically it contains
data
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 2 No |
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