Re: DB Design and Views

Forget the optimizer, what about the developer?

This just doesn't seem like a good idea, or in the words of Wayne Brady 'That is just wrong on so many levels'.

Jared

On Tuesday 11 December 2001 04:30, Stefan Jahnke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as I remember, it was always recommended to avoid the use of views upon
> views upon views in the design of an Oracle DB (as for version 7/8),
> since the optimizer might get confused.
> Does that still apply ?
> I'm supposed to give some guidelines to developers about the usage of
> views.
> My point of view is, that views should only be used to grant limited
> access to tables in a schema (horizontal/vertical) or to
> consolidate/pre-calculate data.
>
> Any input ?
>
> Regards,
> Stefan

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