Views, Duality Views, and Materialized Views
Michelle Malcher, Darl Kuhn · Apress eBooks · 2023
Views are used extensively in reporting applications to present data APIs and also present subsets of data to users. One could start to look at views as a way of managing data and of presenting data sets in different ways for applications and users to consume the data. It is not just reading the data either; the capabilities exist to modify the data through the view.