Let’s say you get a request or maybe the developer adds a column in the middle of the table. What happens to the view? Was it created with SELECT *? Could the title of this post just as easily have been “Don’t SELECT * ever again!”? Sure…
This is exactly what had happened. The table was altered and the view didn’t change. The view was actually throwing a date from string conversion error.
Let’s take a peek at the after math of adding a column without rebuilding the view.
To Daniel’s two take-aways I would add a third: don’t use the GUI to insert columns in the middle of a table. The order of columns in a relational table is ultimately irrelevant, so add new columns at the end. That avoids this problem altogether.