Dropping a materialized view

You can drop a materialized view from the database. Perform this task when you no longer need the materialized view, or when you have made a schema change to an underlying referenced object such that the materialized view definition is no longer valid.

Prerequisites

You must be the owner, or have the DROP ANY MATERIALIZED VIEW or DROP ANY OBJECT system privilege.

Before you can drop a materialized view, you must drop or disable all dependent views. To determine whether there are views dependent on a materialized view, use the sa_dependent_views system procedure.

Task

In Sybase Central, use the SQL Anywhere 16 plug-in to connect to the database.
In the left pane, double-click Views.
Right-click the materialized view and click Delete.
Click Yes.

Results

The materialized view is dropped from the database.

Next

If you had regular views that were dependent on the materialized view, you will not be able to enable them. You must change their definition or drop them.

Dropping a materialized view

Task

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