Databaseontwerp
Lis Sulmont
Curriculum Manager
In een database is een view de resultset van een opgeslagen query op de data, die gebruikers kunnen bevragen alsof het een persistente tabel is (Wikipedia)
Virtuele tabel die niet in het fysieke schema zit
CREATE VIEW view_name AS
SELECT col1, col2
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

$$
Doel: Geef titels en auteurs van het genre science fiction terug
CREATE VIEW scifi_books AS
SELECT title, author, genre
FROM dim_book_sf
JOIN dim_genre_sf ON dim_genre_sf.genre_id = dim_book_sf.genre_id
JOIN dim_author_sf ON dim_author_sf.author_id = dim_book_sf.author_id
WHERE dim_genre_sf.genre = 'science fiction';
SELECT * FROM scifi_books
| title | author | genre |
|-------------------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
| The Naked Sun | Isaac Asimov | science fiction |
| The Robots of Dawn | Isaac Asimov | science fiction |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | science fiction |
| The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | science fiction |
| The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | science fiction |
| Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) | Octavia E. Butler | science fiction |
| ... | ... | ... |
SELECT * FROM scifi_books
=
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT title, author, genre
FROM dim_book_sf
JOIN dim_genre_sf ON dim_genre_sf.genre_id = dim_book_sf.genre_id
JOIN dim_author_sf ON dim_author_sf.author_id = dim_book_sf.author_id
WHERE dim_genre_sf.genre = 'science fiction');
$$
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.views;
Inclusief systeemviews
SELECT * FROM information_schema.views
WHERE table_schema NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema');
Exclusief systeemviews
$$

Databaseontwerp