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Is there a way to visually display a database view in a database diagram?
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Yes, though not using SSMS's Database Diagrams.
My solution for this is Microsoft BI's Data Source View (DSV). This requires that you have Microsoft's BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio), a component of SQL Server Standard (or higher) installed.
BIDS 2005 through 2016 should all work and provide the same basic functionality.
Alternatively, if you want access to a free version of the toolset, you can download and install SQL Server Express with Advanced Services ( basically SQL Express with Reporting Services added), though I have not worked with this version to verify.
Here's a DSV of Microsoft's AdventureWorks2008 OLTP database. This image shows an example of what one can do with SQL views in DSVs. In it, I replaced the Employee table with the vEmployee View (gave it a friendly name of 'Employee') that exists in the database, and added logical primary key and foreign key relationships that mirror the PK/FKs of the underlying physical table.
Note that all changes made in a DSV are logical and therefore isolated to the DSV file itself and do not impact the database directly.