12-1 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. What Is a View? EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR HIREDATE SAL COMM DEPTNO KING PRESIDENT 17-NOV BLAKE MANAGER MAY CLARK MANAGER JUN JONES MANAGER APR MARTIN SALESMAN SEP ALLEN SALESMAN FEB TURNER SALESMAN SEP JAMES CLERK DEC WARD SALESMAN FEB FORD ANALYST DEC SMITH CLERK DEC SCOTT ANALYST DEC ADAMS CLERK JAN MILLER CLERK JAN EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR HIREDATE SAL COMM DEPTNO KING PRESIDENT 17-NOV BLAKE MANAGER MAY CLARK MANAGER JUN JONES MANAGER APR MARTIN SALESMAN SEP ALLEN SALESMAN FEB TURNER SALESMAN SEP JAMES CLERK DEC WARD SALESMAN FEB FORD ANALYST DEC SMITH CLERK DEC SCOTT ANALYST DEC ADAMS CLERK JAN MILLER CLERK JAN EMP Table EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR HIREDATE SAL COMM DEPTNO KING PRESIDENT 17-NOV CLARK MANAGER JUN MILLER CLERK JAN JONES MANAGER APR SCOTT ANALYST DEC ADAMS CLERK JAN SMITH CLERK DEC FORD ANALYST DEC BLAKE MANAGER MAY MARTIN SALESMAN SEP ALLEN SALESMAN FEB TURNER SALESMAN SEP JAMES CLERK DEC WARD SALESMAN FEB EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR HIREDATE SAL COMM DEPTNO KING PRESIDENT 17-NOV CLARK MANAGER JUN MILLER CLERK JAN JONES MANAGER APR SCOTT ANALYST DEC ADAMS CLERK JAN SMITH CLERK DEC FORD ANALYST DEC BLAKE MANAGER MAY MARTIN SALESMAN SEP ALLEN SALESMAN FEB TURNER SALESMAN SEP JAMES CLERK DEC WARD SALESMAN FEB EMPNO ENAME JOB KING PRESIDENT 7782 CLARK MANAGER 7934 MILLER CLERK EMPVU10 View EMPVU10 View

12-2 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Simple Views and Complex Views FeatureSimple ViewsComplex Views Number of tablesOneOne or more Contain functionsNoYes Contain groups of dataNoYes DML through viewYesNot always FeatureSimple ViewsComplex Views Number of tablesOneOne or more Contain functionsNoYes Contain groups of dataNoYes DML through viewYesNot always

12-3 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Creating a View You embed a subquery within the CREATE VIEW statement. The subquery can contain complex SELECT syntax. The subquery cannot contain an ORDER BY clause. You embed a subquery within the CREATE VIEW statement. The subquery can contain complex SELECT syntax. The subquery cannot contain an ORDER BY clause. CREATE [OR REPLACE] [FORCE|NOFORCE] VIEW view [(alias[, alias]...)] AS subquery [WITH CHECK OPTION [CONSTRAINT constraint]] [WITH READ ONLY] CREATE [OR REPLACE] [FORCE|NOFORCE] VIEW view [(alias[, alias]...)] AS subquery [WITH CHECK OPTION [CONSTRAINT constraint]] [WITH READ ONLY]

12-4 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Creating a View Create a view, EMPVU10, that contains details of employees in department 10. Describe the structure of the view by using the SQL*Plus DESCRIBE command. SQL> DESCRIBE empvu10 SQL> CREATE VIEW empvu10 2 AS SELECTempno, ename, job 3 FROMemp 4 WHEREdeptno = 10; View created.

12-5 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Querying a View USER_VIEWS USER_VIEWS EMPVU10 SELECTempno, ename, job FROMemp WHEREdeptno = 10; USER_VIEWS USER_VIEWS EMPVU10 SELECTempno, ename, job FROMemp WHEREdeptno = 10; SQL*Plus SELECT * FROM empvu10; EMP 7839KINGPRESIDENT 7782CLARKMANAGER 7934MILLERCLERK

12-6 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Modifying a View Modify the EMPVU10 view by using CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW clause. Add an alias for each column name. Column aliases in the CREATE VIEW clause are listed in the same order as the columns in the subquery. Modify the EMPVU10 view by using CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW clause. Add an alias for each column name. Column aliases in the CREATE VIEW clause are listed in the same order as the columns in the subquery. SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW empvu10 2 (employee_number, employee_name, job_title) 3 AS SELECT empno, ename, job 4 FROMemp 5 WHEREdeptno = 10; View created.

12-7 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Creating a Complex View Create a complex view that contains group functions to display values from two tables. SQL> CREATE VIEWdept_sum_vu 2 (name, minsal, maxsal, avgsal) 3 AS SELECTd.dname, MIN(e.sal), MAX(e.sal), 4AVG(e.sal) 5 FROMemp e, dept d 6 WHEREe.deptno = d.deptno 7 GROUP BY d.dname; View created.

12-8 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Using the WITH CHECK OPTION Clause You can ensure that DML on the view stays within the domain of the view by using the WITH CHECK OPTION clause. Any attempt to change the department number for any row in the view will fail because it violates the WITH CHECK OPTION constraint. SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW empvu20 2 AS SELECT* 3 FROM emp 4 WHERE deptno = 20 5 WITH CHECK OPTION CONSTRAINT empvu20_ck; View created.

12-9 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Denying DML Operations You can ensure that no DML operations occur by adding the WITH READ ONLY option to your view definition. SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW empvu10 2 (employee_number, employee_name, job_title) 3 AS SELECTempno, ename, job 4 FROMemp 5 WHEREdeptno = 10 6 WITH READ ONLY; View created. Any attempt to perform a DML on any row in the view will result in Oracle Server error.

12-10 Copyright  Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved. Removing a View Remove a view without losing data because a view is based on underlying tables in the database. SQL> DROP VIEW empvu10; View dropped. DROP VIEW view;