This may seem naive or rudimentary but really trying to understand this before I execute it and then write it up in a processing manual.
I have a series of tables which have a field titled size class. It is a code that measures a range of employment such as 0-4, 5-9, and so on. There are 43 different values for this in the tables (xyzfirms20171, xyzfirms20172, xyzfirms20173, and xyzfirms20174). The report that I am tasked with constructing only uses 9 size classes.
My first thought was to add a new field and then update the tables using this new range of values for size class. However, in recent days, I have became aware of doing operations such as this in a "view" or essentially in the background. This would be where it is not a permanent addition to the table but is still queried. Would it look like the code snippet below or is there a...