Question { 3668 }

According to oracle specification VIEW is a object.
OBJECT that means anything stored in the oracle database
that has the physical existence.why VIEW doesn't take memory
in oracle database, but it is treated as a object ?Please
explain ?

Answer

A view is a SQL query which is stored in the Oracle data
dictionary.We can think of a view as a virtual table or
mapping of data from one or more tables.Since it is stored
in Oracle's Data Dictionary,it is treated by Oracle as an
Object.


Remember:Views do not contain any data - it is just a stored
query in the database that can be executed when called.