Which term describes a virtual table that presents data as a table but does not store its own data?

• A. Table
• B. View
• C. Row
• D. Index

Answer: (B)

A view is a virtual table defined by a query that pulls data from underlying tables without storing it itself. It presents data in table form, but the actual data remains in the base tables and is retrieved when you query the view. This makes views useful for showing a specific subset of columns, filtering rows, or combining data from multiple tables as if from a single table, without duplicating data. Note that some systems have materialized views that do store data, but a regular view does not. The other terms don’t fit because a table stores data physically, a row is a single record, and an index is a structure to speed access rather than a table-like data presentation.