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| title: Creating and Managing Views |
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| Views enable you to save frequently used or complex queries, then access them in a `SELECT` statement as if they were a table. A view is not physically materialized on disk: the query runs as a subquery when you access the view. |
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| If a subquery is associated with a single query, consider using the `WITH` clause of the `SELECT` command instead of creating a seldom-used view. |
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| ## <a id="topic101"></a>Creating Views |
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| The `CREATE VIEW`command defines a view of a query. For example: |
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| ``` sql |
| CREATE VIEW comedies AS SELECT * FROM films WHERE kind = 'comedy'; |
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| Views ignore `ORDER BY` and `SORT` operations stored in the view. |
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| ## <a id="topic102"></a>Dropping Views |
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| The `DROP VIEW` command removes a view. For example: |
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| ``` sql |
| DROP VIEW topten; |
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