ASA SQL User's Guide
Working with Database Objects
Working with views
There are some restrictions on the SELECT statements you can use as views. In particular, you cannot use an ORDER BY clause in the SELECT query. A characteristic of relational tables is that there is no significance to the ordering of the rows or columns, and using an ORDER BY clause would impose an order on the rows of the view. You can use the GROUP BY clause, subqueries, and joins in view definitions.
To develop a view, tune the SELECT query by itself until it provides exactly the results you need in the format you want. Once you have the SELECT query just right, you can add a phrase in front of the query to create the view. For example,
CREATE VIEW viewname AS
UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE statements are allowed on some views, but not on others, depending on its associated SELECT statement.
You cannot update views containing aggregate functions, such as COUNT(*). Nor can you update views containing a GROUP BY clause in the SELECT statement, or views containing a UNION operation. In all these cases, there is no way to translate the UPDATE into an action on the underlying tables.
In Sybase Central, you can copy views between databases. To do so, select the view in the right pane of Sybase Central and drag it to the Views folder of another connected database. A new view is then created, and the original view's code is copied to it.
Note that only the view code is copied to the new view. The other view properties, such as permissions, are not copied.