What is the difference between a stored procedure and a view?

Question

I am confused about a few points:

1. What is the difference between a stored procedure and a view?

2. When should I use stored procedures, and whe

Answer 1

Plenty of info available here

Here is a good summary:

A Stored Procedure:

• Accepts parameters
• Can NOT be used as building block in a larger query
• Can contain several statements, loops, IF ELSE, etc.
• Can perform modifications to one or several tables
• Can NOT be used as the target of an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement.

A View:

• Does NOT accept parameters
• Can be used as building block in a larger query
• Can contain only one single SELECT query
• Can NOT perform modifications to any table
• But can (sometimes) be used as the target of an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement.