Why do you create a View in a database?

Question

When and Why does some one decide that they need to create a View in their database? Why not just run a normal stored procedure or select?

Answer 1

There is more than one reason to do this. Sometimes makes common join queries easy as one can just query a table name instead of doing all the joins.

Another reason is to limit the data to different users. So for instance:

Table1: Colums - USER_ID;USERNAME;SSN

Admin users can have privs on the actual table, but users that you don't want to have access to say the SSN, you create a view as

CREATE VIEW USERNAMES AS SELECT user_id, username FROM Table1;

Then give them privs to access the view and not the table.