Database VIEW does not reflect the data in the underying TABLE

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The customer claims that the application (.NET) when querying for some data returns data different from when the customer looks into the data table directly

Answer 1

Assuming the view does not actually transform the data, technically it is possible if a corruption occurs. View retrieves data from one index, 'table' retrieves from another (ie. from clustered) and the two are out of sync. A DBCC CHECKDB should reveal the problem.

But human error is much more likely, ie. they are looking at different table than the view, or at different records.