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Both Views and Indexes are created on top of a table but each of them serve a specific purpose.

An Index is a data structure that is created to improve the performance of the data fetch operations on a table

A view is similar to a table but may contain data from one or more tables connected to one another through a business logic. A view can be created to implement business logic or to conceal the underlying table implementation from everyone

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