Using optimizations from a subquery

You can create a query having a subquery that the optimizer rewrites based on a materialized view. You create a materialized view, and then run a query that uses the materialized view.

In this task, you create a materialized view and use it in a subquery to return the number of destination-origin pairs. Suppose the data resides in a table named flights_data that has the following columns:


c_id	dest	origin
1	Chicago	Hyderabad
2	London	Moscow
...

Create a table schema definition named flights_data for destination and origin data.
```
CREATE TABLE flights_data(
  c_id INT,
  dest VARCHAR(256),
  origin VARCHAR(256));
```

Create a materialized view that counts destinations and origins.

CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW mv1
AS
  SELECT dest, origin, count(*)
  FROM flights_data
  GROUP BY dest, origin;

Take advantage of the materialized view to speed your queries when you have to count destinations and origins again.
For example, use a subquery to select the number of destination-origin pairs like the materialized view.
```
SELECT count(*)/2
FROM(
  SELECT dest, origin, count(*)
  FROM flights_data
  GROUP BY dest, origin
) AS t;
```
Transparently, the SQL engine uses the work already in place since creation of the materialized view instead of reprocessing.

Using optimizations from a subquery

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