Database.Views Property

Gets a collection of View objects. Each View object represents a view defined on the database.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<SfcObjectAttribute(SfcContainerRelationship.ObjectContainer, SfcContainerCardinality.ZeroToAny,  _
    GetType(View), SfcObjectFlags.Design)> _
Public ReadOnly Property Views As ViewCollection 
    Get
'Usage
Dim instance As Database 
Dim value As ViewCollection 

value = instance.Views

[SfcObjectAttribute(SfcContainerRelationship.ObjectContainer, SfcContainerCardinality.ZeroToAny, 
    typeof(View), SfcObjectFlags.Design)]
public ViewCollection Views { get; }

[SfcObjectAttribute(SfcContainerRelationship::ObjectContainer, SfcContainerCardinality::ZeroToAny, 
    typeof(View), SfcObjectFlags::Design)]
public:
property ViewCollection^ Views {
    ViewCollection^ get ();
}

[<SfcObjectAttribute(SfcContainerRelationship.ObjectContainer, SfcContainerCardinality.ZeroToAny, 
    typeof(View), SfcObjectFlags.Design)>]
member Views : ViewCollection

function get Views () : ViewCollection

Property Value

Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ViewCollection
A ViewCollection object that represents all the views defined on the database.

Remarks

Specific views can be referenced by using this collection by specifying the name of the view. To add a new view to the collection, call the view constructor View.

Examples

'Connect to the local, default instance of SQL Server.
Dim srv As Server
srv = New Server

'Reference the AdventureWorks2012 database.
Dim db As Database
db = srv.Databases("AdventureWorks2012")

'Display all the users in the database.
Dim us As User
For Each us In db.Users
   Console.WriteLine(us.Name)
Next

PowerShell

$srv = new-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server("(local)")
$db = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Database
$db = $srv.Databases.Item("AdventureWorks2012")

Foreach ($us in $db.Users)
{
   Write-Host $us.Name
}

See Also

Reference

Database Class

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

Working with Database Objects

Creating, Altering, and Removing Views

Creating, Altering, and Removing Databases

CREATE DATABASE (Transact-SQL)