可以把它看作重构数据库模式。

在我看来，存储过程更多的是一种可以针对数据调用的方法，而视图提供了一种机制来创建基础数据的合成版本，可以根据它创建查询或存储过程。当简化或聚合有意义时，我将创建一个视图。当我想提供一个非常特定的服务时，我将编写一个存储过程。

视图还将非常复杂的配置和表分解为易于查询的可管理块。在我们的数据库中，整个表管理系统被分解为来自一个大表的视图。

当我只运行查询时，我喜欢在存储过程上使用视图。视图还可以简化安全性，可用于简化对多个表的插入/更新，并可用于快照/物化数据(运行长时间运行的查询，并保持结果缓存)。

我使用物化视图来执行不需要实时保持准确的查询。

我通常创建视图来反规范化和/或聚合经常用于报告目的的数据。

EDIT

By way of elaboration, if I were to have a database in which some of the entities were person, company, role, owner type, order, order detail, address and phone, where the person table stored both employees and contacts and the address and phone tables stored phone numbers for both persons and companies, and the development team were tasked with generating reports (or making reporting data accessible to non-developers) such as sales by employee, or sales by customer, or sales by region, sales by month, customers by state, etc I would create a set of views that de-normalized the relationships between the database entities so that a more integrated view (no pun intended) of the real world entities was available. Some of the benefits could include:

减少编写查询时的冗余 建立关联实体的标准 提供机会 评估和最大化绩效 用于复杂的计算和连接 (例如在Schemabound视图上建立索引 在该软件中) 让数据更容易获取 对于团队成员和非开发人员来说是直观的。

可以把它看作重构数据库模式。