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>DROP VIEW</H1
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>Name</H2
>DROP VIEW -- remove a view</DIV
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>DROP VIEW <VAR
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>name</VAR
> [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]</PRE
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> <TT
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>DROP VIEW</TT
> drops an existing view. To execute
this command you must be the owner of the view.
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><VAR
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> The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the view to remove.
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><TT
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>CASCADE</TT
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> Automatically drop objects that depend on the view (such as
other views).
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>RESTRICT</TT
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> Refuse to drop the view if any objects depend on it. This is
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> This command will remove the view called <TT
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>kinds</TT
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>DROP VIEW kinds;</PRE
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> This command conforms to the SQL standard.
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>CREATE VIEW</I
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