VIEW with non existing additional columns

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VIEW with non existing additional columns

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GoDaddy
Yak Posting Veteran

64 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-17 : 14:39:11

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

52326 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-17 : 14:41:29

yup. its possible . something like


CREATE VIEW TestView
AS
SELECT Field1,Field2,'your value' AS NonExistentField
FROM YourTable
....

GoDaddy
Yak Posting Veteran

64 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-20 : 14:31:03

how do you specified the Type of the nonexistingfield ? looks like it set it to int by default ..

GoDaddy
Yak Posting Veteran

64 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-20 : 14:33:45

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)

GoDaddy
Yak Posting Veteran

64 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-20 : 15:08:04

I found it by using CAST

jdaman
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

354 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-20 : 15:09:15

Try:

CREATE VIEW TestView
AS
SELECT Field1,Field2, CAST(NULL as NVARCHAR(512)) AS NonExistentField
FROM YourTable

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