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The shortest possible answer is no. The short answer is almost. Keep reading to find out the not-so-short-but-correct answer and learn how to make proper use of your newly discovered SQL views.
By Rafael Victoria-Pereira
We could debate this for hours (I actually witness this being debated—not for hours, of course), but the reality is that views and logical files (LFs) are not the same thing. The truth is that they are almost the same. You need to throw in a little SQL magic for views to have the same functionality as logical files. We’ll talk about that later in the article, but for now…