I have a View that joins a bunch of tables. If I do a select statement on that View whose result contains only a few columns, is the query optimizer smart enough not to perform all the superfluous ...

A view is a virtual representation of an actual table that you can assemble up to your liking (before adding the actual one to your database). It features rows and columns, just like the real deal and ...

In SQL, a view is a virtual table based on the result-set of an SQL statement. A view contains rows and columns, just like a real table. The fields in a view are fields from one or more real tables in ...

Dynamic PHP pages give you the option to choose a MySQL table dynamically from which to query. You must ensure that the table exists before running a query on the table. PHP has a quick function that ...