What is Difference between Simple view and complex view ?

Views in SQL is nothing but the logical table created from one or more tables. We can use the views to fetch the columns from one or more different tables at a time. In real life specifically views are used in Reporting purpose. To create a report we need data from different tables and need to show it on a single dashboard so we are using the views to fetch the data from different tables. View can contain all rows from the table or selected rows from the table. I would like to give more information about difference between simple view and complex view in detail.

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View is nothing but virtual table in sql which will fetch data from one or more physical tables

There are 2 types of views in SQL:

1.Simple View-Simple view is view created on single table

2.Complex View-Complex view is view created on more than 1 tables

Simple View:

When user wants data or some columns from same table then simple view is used. For an example if there is employee table which has Employee_num,Employee_name,salary columnns and we just need to see Employee_num,Employee_name then user can create a simple view.

Employee_num	Employee_name	Department	Salary
1	Amit	OBIEE	680000
2	Rohan	OBIEE	550000
3	Rohit	OBIEE	430000

We want to restrict data from the above table and show only Employee_Num and Employee_name then we will use the view.

Syntax:

Create view Viewname

as Select column_name1,Coumn_name2 from tablename.

Example:

Create view V_Employee

as Select Employee_num,Employee_name from Employee;

You can access the view using Select statement of SQL:

select * from V_Employee;

Output:

Employee_num	Employee_name
1	Amit
2	Rohan
3	Rohit

Complex View:

Complex view is created on using more than one tables. When user wants to retrieve data from more than 1 table then we have to use complex views. To create complex view there should be relation between 2 tables else cartesian product will come by joining 2 tables. There should be some joining conditions, some filters needs to be considered while creating complex views.

Suppose there are 2 tables:

1.Employee tables:-Employee_name,Employee_num,Department_code columns

2.Department:-Department_code,Deptartment_name columns

We need to create view where we want to show the associated department to employee.Here We need to use complex join.

Create view V_EMP_DEPT

as Select e.Employee_name,d.Department_name

from Employee e,Department d

where e.Department_code=d.Department_code;

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Difference between simple view and complex view in tabular format :

Simple View	Complex View
Simple view is the view which has been created by only one table.	Complex view is the view where we require to join multiple tables together for specified result.
We can not use group functions in simple views	We can able to use group functions
You can perform multiple DML operations using simple view	You can not perform DML operations using complex view
It does contain data from only one table	It does contain data from multiple tables
We can not be able to use group by clause in simple view as grouping is not allowed	We can use group by clause in complex view
We can not be able to use pseudo columns like rownum and distinct keyword	We can use the pseudo columns and rownum
Example : Create view V_simple_view As select Empno,Empname from Employee;	Example : Create view V_Complex_view As Select e.emp_no,d.dept_no,e.emp_name from Employee e ,Department d where e.dept_no=e.dept_no;

I hope you are clear with difference between simple view and complex view with examples. If you like this article or if you have any issues with the same kindly comment in comments section.

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