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GoDaddy
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Posted - 04/17/2009 :  14:39:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Is it possible to create a view that select from a Table but adds column that are not existing in the table?

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
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Posted - 04/17/2009 :  14:41:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yup. its possible . something like

CREATE VIEW TestView
AS
SELECT Field1,Field2,'your value' AS NonExistentField
FROM YourTable
....
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GoDaddy
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64 Posts
Posted - 04/20/2009 :  14:31:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
how do you specified the Type of the nonexistingfield ? looks like it set it to int by default ..
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GoDaddy
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Posted - 04/20/2009 :  14:33:45  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hmm it's int because I did something like

CREATE VIEW TestView
AS
SELECT Field1,Field2, NULL AS NonExistentField
FROM YourTable


But I want it to be nvarchar(512)
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GoDaddy
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Posted - 04/20/2009 :  15:08:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I found it by using CAST
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jdaman
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

USA
354 Posts
Posted - 04/20/2009 :  15:09:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Try:
CREATE VIEW TestView
AS
SELECT Field1,Field2, CAST(NULL as NVARCHAR(512)) AS NonExistentField
FROM YourTable
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