I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
One thing I used to use views for was on an unknown schema to join everything I could find together into one enormous pile of data, so I could get an overview of what was going on quicker. I wouldn't use these monsters for anything apart from that though!
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One thing I used to use views for was on an unknown schema to join everything I could find together into one enormous pile of data, so I could get an overview of what was going on quicker. I wouldn't use these monsters for anything apart from that though!