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- 21 Views
- 22 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA Information Database
- 23 Precision Math
- 24 MySQL APIs
- 25 MySQL Connectors
- 26 Error Handling in MySQL
- 27 Extending MySQL
- A Problems and Common Errors
- B Credits
- C MySQL and the Future (the TODO)
- D MySQL Change History
- E Porting to Other Systems
- F Environment Variables
- G MySQL Regular Expressions
- H GNU General Public License
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Views (including updatable views) are implemented in the 5.0 version of MySQL Server. Views are available in binary releases from 5.0.1 and up.
This chapter discusses the following topics:
Creating or altering views with
CREATE VIEWorALTER VIEWDestroying views with
DROP VIEWDisplaying view metadata with
SHOW CREATE VIEW
To use views if you have upgraded to MySQL 5.0.1 from an older release, you should upgrade your grant tables so that they contain the view-related privileges. See Section 2.10.7, “Upgrading the Grant Tables”.
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