Databricks Data Analyst Databricks-Certified-Data-Analyst-Associate Question # 1 Topic 1 Discussion

In Databricks, aviewis a saved SQL query definition that references existing tables or other views. Once created, a view remains persisted in themetastore(such as Unity Catalog or Hive Metastore) until it is explicitly dropped.

Key points:

Views donot store datathemselves but reference data from underlying tables.

Logging out or being inactive doesnotdelete or alter views.

Unless a user or admin explicitlydropsthe view or the underlying data/table is deleted, the view continues to function as expected.

Therefore, after logging back in—even days later—a user can still run SELECT * FROM stakeholders.eur_customers, and it will return the same data (provided the underlying table hasn’t changed).