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SHOW CREATE VIEWview_name This statement shows theCREATE VIEW statement that creates the named view.
mysql> SHOW CREATE VIEW v\G*************************** 1. row *************************** View: v Create View: CREATE ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED DEFINER=`bob`@`localhost` SQL SECURITY DEFINER VIEW `v` AS select 1 AS `a`,2 AS `b`character_set_client: utf8mb4collation_connection: utf8mb4_0900_ai_cicharacter_set_client is the session value of thecharacter_set_client system variable when the view was created.collation_connection is the session value of thecollation_connection system variable when the view was created.
Use ofSHOW CREATE VIEW requires theSHOW VIEW privilege, and theSELECT privilege for the view in question.
View information is also available from theINFORMATION_SCHEMAVIEWS table. SeeSection 28.3.47, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA VIEWS Table”.
MySQL lets you use differentsql_mode settings to tell the server the type of SQL syntax to support. For example, you might use theANSI 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 thesql_mode setting to a value different fromANSI 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 aCONCAT() 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 (0.01 sec)mysql> SHOW CREATE VIEW test.v\G*************************** 1. row *************************** View: v Create View: CREATE VIEW "v" AS 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 ofsql_mode do not affect the results from the view. However an additional consequence is that comments prior toSELECT are stripped from the definition by the server.
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