How to connect tables using views in Navicat.

2 years ago
Benjamin Taylor
1 minute

In Navicat, you can utilize views to link two or more tables.

Here is an example demonstrating how to use a view to connect two tables.

  1. First, create a view, for example named my_view. In Navicat, open the database, right-click on “Views” on the left side, and select “Create a new view”.
  2. In the view editor, input the definition of the view. For example, if you want to join table A and table B, you can use the following statement:
SELECT A.*, B.*
FROM A
INNER JOIN B ON A.id = B.id

This statement will join table A and table B using the id field.

  1. Save the view and close the view editor.
  2. In the query analyzer or query builder, views can be used to conduct queries. For example, you can use the following statement to query view data:
SELECT *
FROM my_view

This statement will return the result of joining tables A and B.

By using views, the process of joining tables can be simplified, avoiding the need to repeatedly write join statements. Additionally, views can also hide the details of the underlying tables and provide a more streamlined interface for other operations to utilize.

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