Datenbankdesign
Lis Sulmont
Curriculum Manager
In einer Datenbank ist eine Ansicht das Ergebnis einer gespeicherten Abfrage der Daten, die die Datenbankbenutzer genauso abfragen können wie in einem persistenten Datenbank-Sammlungsobjekt (Wikipedia).
Virtuelle Tabelle, die nicht zum physischen Schema gehört
CREATE VIEW view_name AS
SELECT col1, col2
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

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Ziel: Titel und Autoren des Genres „ science fiction “ zurückgeben
CREATE VIEW scifi_books AS
SELECT title, author, genre
FROM dim_book_sf
JOIN dim_genre_sf ON dim_genre_sf.genre_id = dim_book_sf.genre_id
JOIN dim_author_sf ON dim_author_sf.author_id = dim_book_sf.author_id
WHERE dim_genre_sf.genre = 'science fiction';
SELECT * FROM scifi_books
| title | author | genre |
|-------------------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
| The Naked Sun | Isaac Asimov | science fiction |
| The Robots of Dawn | Isaac Asimov | science fiction |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | science fiction |
| The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | science fiction |
| The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | science fiction |
| Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) | Octavia E. Butler | science fiction |
| ... | ... | ... |
SELECT * FROM scifi_books
=
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT title, author, genre
FROM dim_book_sf
JOIN dim_genre_sf ON dim_genre_sf.genre_id = dim_book_sf.genre_id
JOIN dim_author_sf ON dim_author_sf.author_id = dim_book_sf.author_id
WHERE dim_genre_sf.genre = 'science fiction');
$$
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.views;
Inklusive Systemansichten
SELECT * FROM information_schema.views
WHERE table_schema NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema');
Ausschluss von Systemansichten

Datenbankdesign