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One of the beautiful aspects of the relational data model and SQL is that the output of a query is also a table, a relation to be precise. It may consist of a single column or a single row, but it is a table nonetheless. A view is a query that can be used like a table.
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Batra, R. (2018). Views. In: SQL Primer. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3576-8_14
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