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[@lancedb/lancedb](../globals.md) / ViewDescription

# Interface: ViewDescription

What a database records about one view.

A view holds no rows: it stores the statement that defines it and the
schema that statement resolved to, so a reader sees its sources as they
are at read time.

## Properties

### defaultDatabase

```ts
defaultDatabase: string;
```

The database that unqualified table names in [query](ViewDescription.md#query) resolve against.

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### defaultNamespacePath

```ts
defaultNamespacePath: string[];
```

The namespace path those unqualified names resolve against; empty is the
root namespace.

Recorded with the view because it outlives the session that declared it:
a reader resolving the query against its own default namespace could read
a different table than the view was defined over.

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### name

```ts
name: string;
```

The view's name within its namespace.

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### namespacePath

```ts
namespacePath: string[];
```

The namespace holding the view; empty is the root namespace.

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### query

```ts
query: string;
```

The defining query, as the database stores it.

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### schema

```ts
schema: Schema<any>;
```

The schema the defining query resolved to when the view was created.