From the course: MySQL Advanced Topics (2019)
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Creating a view - MySQL Tutorial
From the course: MySQL Advanced Topics (2019)
Creating a view
- [Narrator] In MySQL, you can save a query as a view. And you can use that view as if it were a table, this is very simple and very useful. Here we're using the album database again, and I have a simple select here which selects from the track table, and it separates out the minutes and seconds using integer division from the duration column. And when I execute this, you see we get minutes and seconds as if they were separate columns, and they're named m and s. So I'm going to say this is a useful query. I want to save this query. And I can now save this as a view, I just simply say create view. Track view. AS, and then the select statement. As simple as that. When I execute this, that view is now saved, and I can say select asterisk from track view as if it were a table, and I get this result with the minutes and seconds separated out just as I had in my select statement. So my select statement is now saved as a…
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