What is a view? What is it used for? Give examples when a view can be used for your project. Solution View is way of portraying information in a database by arranging data items in certain order by highlighting certain items. Often thought of as Virtual table, doesn\'t store data itself but pulls out from one or more tables. Views are used according to purpose so that we query on selective data not whole of it. Using views saves us lot of querying resources. For example, people query telephone directory to search for Street Address associated with Phone Number. We can create View which stores 2 columns namely Phone number and Street Address ignoring all other fields..