"Alan" <not.me_at_uhuh.rcn.com> wrote in message
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> "Keith" <keith.wilby_at_baeAWAYWITHITsystems.com> wrote in message
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>> What's the difference between a synonym and a view? The stuff I've read
>> from a Google search suggests that a synonym is another name for a table
> or
>> view, but how can that be if you can create a synonym as an object?
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> A view is stored SQL. A
> synonym is another name for something.
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Are you saying that a synonym can be a view or a table? If I create a
synonym based upon a view then that's just more stored SQL?
Received on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 06:39:50 CDT
