>I am considering creating view programatically, instead of saving the definitions in the database. I am not (currently) asking how to do it; I will try to figure it out from the help, first.
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In addition to what the others said, creating the view programmatically does not bypass the need to store the view in a dbc. When you run the code that creates the view, that view is stored in the dbc just as if it was created from the view designer.