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Chapter 10: Views
Try It Out Using a View to Filter Data
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With these two things in mind, let’s create a new view by changing our old view around just a little bit:
CREATE VIEW CurrentEmployees_vw
AS
SELECT EmployeeID,
FirstName,
MiddleInitial,
LastName,
Title,
HireDate,
ManagerEmpID,
Department
FROM Employees
WHERE TerminationDate IS NULL;
In addition to the name change and the WHERE clause we’ve added, note that we’ve also eliminated the
TerminationDate column from the SELECT list.
Let’s test how this works a little bit by running a straight SELECT statement against our Employees table
and limiting our SELECT list to the things that we care about:
SELECT EmployeeID,
FirstName,
LastName,
TerminationDate
FROM Employees;
This returns a few columns from all the rows in the entire table:
EmployeeID FirstName LastName TerminationDate
------------ -------------- ------------ -------------------------
1 Joe Dokey NULL
2 Peter Principle NULL
3 Steve Smith 1997-01-31
4 Howard Kilroy NULL
5 Mary Contrary 1998-06-15
6 Billy Bob NULL
(6 row(s) affected)
Now let’s check out our view:
SELECT EmployeeID,
FirstName,
LastName
FROM CurrentEmployees_vw;