This document discusses user defined functions (UDF) and views in MySQL. It provides the syntax for creating UDFs and views. UDFs allow users to define reusable functions that can be called from queries. Views act as virtual tables that are based on the result set of a SELECT statement. The document provides an example of creating a UDF to return the number of jobs applied by a user and an example of creating a view from an employee table to select employee IDs and names. It describes some key properties and limitations of UDFs and how views can be used to rename attributes and insert/delete data.