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I'll just be a quick 3h (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] calabast@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A view is a saved query that pretends it's a table. It doesn't actually store any data. So if you need to query 10 different tables, joining them together and filtering the results specific ways, a view would just be that saved query, so instead of "SELECT * FROM (a big mess of tables)" you can do "SELECT * FROM HandyView"