View Management

Creating a View

Right-click the Views and select Create View. The DDL template for the view is displayed in the SQL Terminal tab.

Granting/Revoking a Privilege

1. Right-click the views group and select Grant/Revoke. The Grant/Revoke dialog box is displayed.
2. Select the objects to grant/revoke a privilege from the Object Selection tab and click Next.
3. Select a role from the Role drop-down list in the Privilege Selection tab. Select Grant/Revoke in the Privilege Selection tab.
4. On the SQL Preview tab, you can check the automatically generated for the inputs provided.

Viewing the DDL

Right-click the selected view and select Show DDL.

The DDL is displayed in a new SQL Terminal tab. You must refresh the Object Browser to view the latest DDL.

Exporting the View DDL

Right-click the selected view and select Export DDL.

1. In the Object Browser pane, right-click the selected schema and select Export DDL.

   You need to customize the export path. To compress data, select .zip

   

   You must click I agree under Security Disclaimer, then click OK. You can disable the security disclaimer. After the disclaimer is disabled, it will not be displayed when you export the DDL. For details, see Table 1.

2. Click OK. The operation progress is displayed on the status bar in the lower right corner.

   The Export message and status bar display the status of the completed operation.

   

   • To cancel the export operation, double-click the status to open the Progress View tab and click .
   • If the view name contains characters that are not supported by Windows, the name of the exported file is different from the view name.

   Database Encoding	File Encoding	Support for Exporting a DDL
   UTF-8	UTF-8	Yes
   	GBK	Yes
   	LATIN1	Yes
   GBK	GBK	Yes
   	UTF-8	Yes
   	LATIN1	No
   LATIN1	LATIN1	Yes
   	GBK	No
   	UTF-8	Yes

Setting the Schema for a View

1. Right-click the selected view and select Set Schema. The Set Schema dialog box is displayed.

   

2. Select the required schema from the drop-down list and click OK.

   The status bar displays the status of the completed operation.

   If the required schema contains a view with the same name as the current view, then Data Studio does not allow setting the schema for the view.

Viewing the Properties of a View

Right-click the selected View and select Properties.

The properties (General and Columns) of the selected view is displayed in different tabs.

If you modify the properties of a view that is already opened, then refresh and open the properties of the view again to check the updated information on the same opened window.

Renaming a View

1. Right-click the selected view and select Rename View. The Rename View dialog box is displayed.

   

2. Enter the required name for the view and click OK. You can view the renamed view in the Object Browser.

   The status bar displays the status of the completed operation.

Dropping a View

Right-click the selected view and select Drop View. The Drop View dialog box is displayed. Click Yes to delete the view.

Right-click the selected view and select Drop View Cascade.