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20.29. The INFORMATION_SCHEMA VIEWS Table

The VIEWS table provides information about views in databases. You must have the SHOW VIEW privilege to access this table.

INFORMATION_SCHEMA Name SHOW Name Remarks
TABLE_CATALOG def
TABLE_SCHEMA
TABLE_NAME
VIEW_DEFINITION
CHECK_OPTION
IS_UPDATABLE
DEFINER
SECURITY_TYPE
CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT MySQL extension
COLLATION_CONNECTION MySQL extension

Notes:

MySQL lets you use different sql_mode settings to tell the server the type of SQL syntax to support. For example, you might use the ANSI SQL mode to ensure MySQL correctly interprets the standard SQL concatenation operator, the double bar (||), in your queries. If you then create a view that concatenates items, you might worry that changing the sql_mode setting to a value different from ANSI could cause the view to become invalid. But this is not the case. No matter how you write out a view definition, MySQL always stores it the same way, in a canonical form. Here is an example that shows how the server changes a double bar concatenation operator to a CONCAT() function:

mysql> SET sql_mode = 'ANSI';Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)mysql> CREATE VIEW test.v AS SELECT 'a' || 'b' as col1;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)mysql> SELECT VIEW_DEFINITION FROM
        INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS    -> WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'test'
        AND TABLE_NAME = 'v';+----------------------------------+| VIEW_DEFINITION                  |+----------------------------------+| select concat('a','b') AS `col1` |+----------------------------------+1 row in set (0.00 sec)

The advantage of storing a view definition in canonical form is that changes made later to the value of sql_mode will not affect the results from the view. However an additional consequence is that comments prior to SELECT are stripped from the definition by the server.