What are materialized views?

Question

Can someone explain to me what views or materialized views are in plain everyday English please? I\'ve been reading about materialized views but I don\'t understand.

Answer 1

A materialized view is a database object that contains the results of a query. They are local copies of data located remotely, or are used to create summary tables based on aggregations of a table's data.

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