How do views relate to our day-to-day tasks as web developers?
When working on a large project in a team environment, you may be granted access to views only, not the underlying tables. For example, a Database Administrator (DBA) may have built the database, and you’re just using it. You might not even be aware that you’re using views. This is because, syntactically, both tables and views are used in the FROM clause in exactly the same way.
When you build your own database, you may wish to create views for the sake of convenience. For example, if you often need to display a list of entries and their category on different pages within the site, it’s a lot easier to write FROM entries_with_category than the underlying join.
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