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Not OP but two main things: 1. Access control - you can create new SQL accounts and only give them access to select from specified views 2. Encapsulation and

• noisy_boy 5y ago
  These are correct - some others are: - ability to do transformations uniformly e.g. if you want to represent a value in a certain way uniformly instead of having to do that in multiple places - ability to get generated values (like 'create_ts() - now()' to get the age of the record) directly from the database instead of computing it repetitively - move the join mechanisms on the database side to do those efficiently instead of the ORM having to do it (sometimes suboptimally); also helps with joins that are repetitive - ability to apply certain "default" filters e.g. if you are always fetching with predicate 'active = true', then you can include that in the view