Question

New to views with sql server, not sure how to view the information it has gathered with vbscript. I know it is not as simple as:

select * from EXAMPLE_VIEW

I want to get the information from my example view loop through it and display it, however when i try to do that sql query i get invalid object name.

My question is how do you sql query a view

Answer 1

You should probably be doing this:

SELECT column1, column2 FROM dbo.EXAMPLE_VIEW;

This is because if your user has a different default schema than dbo, it might be checking for some other view with the same name under a different schema. (You also know not to use SELECT *, right?)

So you should also make sure your user account has select permissions on the view and/or the table(s) behind it.

• Bad habits to kick : using SELECT * / omitting the column list

• Bad habits to kick : avoiding the schema prefix