--- layout: global title: CREATE VIEW displayTitle: CREATE VIEW license: | Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --- ### Description Views are based on the result-set of an `SQL` query. `CREATE VIEW` constructs a virtual table that has no physical data therefore other operations like `ALTER VIEW` and `DROP VIEW` only change metadata. ### Syntax {% highlight sql %} CREATE [OR REPLACE] [[GLOBAL] TEMPORARY] VIEW [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]view_name create_view_clauses AS query; {% endhighlight %} ### Parameters
OR REPLACE
[GLOBAL] TEMPORARY
IF NOT EXISTS
create_view_clauses
[(column_name [COMMENT column_comment], ...) ]
to specify column-level comments.[COMMENT view_comment]
to specify view-level comments.[TBLPROPERTIES (property_name = property_value, ...)]
to add metadata key-value pairs.query