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

One curious thing about views are that they are seen by Microsoft Access as tables: when you attach a Microsoft Access front-end to an SQL database using ODBC, you see the tables and views in the list of available tables. So if you are preparing complicated reports in MS Access, you can let the SQL server do the joining and querying, and greatly simplify your life. Ditto for preparing a query in MS Excel.