Re: Corporate Acceptance of Creating Views ?

"jane" <janeyiu_at_optonline.net> wrote in message news:<eQoD7.43362$C7.13166440_at_news02.optonline.net>...
> Is it true that in general corporate enviornment, the use of Views is
> discouraged ? even frowned up ?
>
> I was working with this "seasoned" developer on developing reports, I am new
> to the Oracle enviornment
> and she insisted that I should NOT use views if at all possible, preferablly
> not at all.
>
> "You should be able to get all the data you need with straight SQL...even if
> it have to go for pages !"
> "...you are creating yet another dependency...it's another object that has
> to be maintained !......"

That's sounds pretty stupid. However just my humble opinion.

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