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Foil 22 Major Use of Views in a Database I

From Untitled presentation ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng, C.W. Ou, Geoffrey C. Fox


Provide an additional level of table security by restricting access to a predetermined set of rows and columns of a table.
For example, a view of a table can be created so that columns with sensitive data (for example, SSN) are not included in the definition of the view
Hide data complexity.
For example, a single view can be used to create a join, which is a display of related columns or rows in multiple tables.
However, the view hides the fact that this fact that this data actually originates from several tables



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