I have archived some old line items for invoices that are no longer current but still need to reference them. I think I need to create a VIEW but not really understanding it. Can someone help so I can run a query to pull the invoice and then the total of all the line items assigned (no matter what table the items are in)?
CREATE TABLE `Invoice` (
`Invoice_ID` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`Invoice_CreatedDateTime` DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
`Invoice_Status` ENUM('Paid','Sent','Unsent','Hold') DEFAULT NULL,
`LastUpdatedAt` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`),
KEY `LastUpdatedAt` (`LastUpdatedAt`)
) ENGINE=MYISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
CREATE TABLE `Invoice_L