A myth about view TIP #102

 

I don’t know why every interviewer’s favorite question “Can we insert record using View ?” If you say Yes/No the interviewer will roaming around like so Can you update record using View?  or Can you delete record using view ?

I  hope everyone who is reading this article will be aware of what is view and how to create it ?

If not then need not to worry

“View can be see as a virtual table based on SQL SERVER result or in other world it is a layer above actual data tables” Or we can say when you want to hide actual table then you create a view wrapper”

You can easily create a View with following syntax

“CREATE VIEW

AS

QUERY “

Let’s understand this by an example.

Suppose in I have a database with name “IndiandotnetDB” which has a  table “tblStudentSource”

Now I created a  view just for fetching records from tblStudentSource

 

CREATE VIEW StudentSourceView
AS
SELECT StudentId,
       FirstName,
       LastName,
       Course,
       Detail
FROM tblStudentSource
Go

Now you can fetch records directly from  View as shown in below

SELECT * FROM StudentSourceView

You will get all the records from tblStudentSourceView

Now the Question “ Can you Insert record from View ?“

So the answer is specific condition you can.

In our scenario we will write following command and execute so the record will be added

So you are clear that we can Insert records from View.

In similar fashion we can update the records as shown below figure

We will following SQL statement as showing in figure in which we are going to update record no 2004 as shown in above figure

As shown record 2004’s FirstValue is updated to value “Updated”

 

Now in similar way we can delete the record using View.

Although there are certain other factor due to which “Insert/update/delete” is possible.

like we have only simple schema.

I will describe this later with more detail like  scenario where  we can not Insert/Uppdate/delete using view.

Till than Enjoy !!!

 

Thanks

RJ