ddbicon.pngDDBuilder: What are Views? (Superseded)

DDBuilder has been superseded by the BASIS DBMS Data Dictionary module accessible from the BASIS IDE or the Enterprise Manager. Recommended for usage with ODBC/JDBC access to PRO/5, Visual PRO/5, BBj application data. DDBuilder is no longer included in the BBj download package as of version 12.0 but can be downloaded with Visual PRO/5.

Views are virtual queries that do not contain table data. Rather, they retrieve columns from selected tables and previously-defined views at runtime and display them as part of a single normalized data file. Views enable the user to retain existing multiple record data files without creating new files and rewriting existing code.