---
title: "Materialized views"
sidebarTitle: "Materialized Views"
description: "Persist query results as physical tables and keep them current."
---

Creates [materialized views](/management/materialized-view): query results
persisted as physical tables, brought up to date by a
[refresh](/feature-engineering/materialized-views).

<Note>
This example is a runnable notebook in the
[vectordb-recipes](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes) repository rather than a page here.
</Note>

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