Let us continue our question of the day series with day eighteen.

What is a view (and is it a view to a kill)?

A view is a great way to combine various pieces of data from multiple tables.  It could also be that you want to do this for security reasons where a user does not have access to one of those tables because of sensitive fields but you give them access to the view because the fields contained in it are safe enough for them to view without exposing the rest of the table.  Views also are useful for a heavily referenced query.  Instead of reusing the query, you just reference the view.

Incidentally, it is only a view to a kill if Mr Bond is involved.  Enjoy!