From: Martijn Tonies
Date: March 16 2006 2:45pm
Subject: On MySQL Views (Re: Accountability with MySQL)
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Hello Gordon,

> And now we are down to reality. This is a MySQL list. Views are a
wonderful
> thing for creating an isolation layer between the application and the
> database. However, MySQL's current implementation makes it extremely
> difficult in many cases to avoid full table scans when you define the
> logical view. {Not poking at the development team I think 5.x is a huge
step
> forward}.

Can you elaborate on that?

Any real world experience with MySQL views?

The thing that annoys the blo*** cr** out of me with the
current implementation is the maintainability of views ->
as the complete query structure is lost once you've created
a view, so you need to run/modify it from SQL statement
all the time :-(

Martijn Tonies
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