How to make CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW work in SQL Server? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Borrowing from @Khan's answer, I would do:

IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.test_abc_def', 'V') IS NOT NULL
    DROP VIEW dbo.test_abc_def
GO

CREATE VIEW dbo.test_abc_def AS
SELECT 
    VCV.xxxx
    ,VCV.yyyy AS yyyy
    ,VCV.zzzz AS zzzz
FROM TABLE_A

MSDN Reference

Answer 2

SQL Server 2016 Answer

With SQL Server 2016 you can now do (MSDN Source):

DROP VIEW IF EXISTS dbo.MyView