How to make CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW work in SQL Server? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Altering a view could be accomplished by dropping the view and recreating it. Use the following to drop and recreate your view.

IF EXISTS
(SELECT NAME FROM SYS.VIEWS WHERE NAME = 'dbo.test_abc_def')
DROP VIEW dbo.test_abc_def) go

CREATE VIEW dbo.test_abc_def AS
SELECT 
    VCV.xxxx, 
    VCV.yyyy AS yyyy
    ,VCV.zzzz AS zzzz
FROM TABLE_A