Views are used for security purposes because they provide encapsulation of the name of the table. Data is in the virtual table, not stored permanently. Views display only selected data. We can also use Sql Join s in the Select statement in deriving the data for the view.

Why we are using views in SQL?

A VIEW in SQL Server is like a virtual table that contains data from one or multiple tables. ... In a VIEW, we can also control user security for accessing the data from the database tables. We can allow users to get the data from the VIEW, and the user does not require permission for each table or column to fetch data.

What is a view how can they be used?

Views are virtual tables. They are only a structure, and contain no data. Their purpose is to allow a user to see a subset of the actual data. A view can consist of a subset of one table.