This one time, on #dbix-class, mst told me somet things about virtual views with DBIC.

package MySchema::Sneaky;

use base qw/DBIx::Class/;


__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/Core/);

__PACKAGE__->table("DUMMY"); # madness going on

# scalar ref to the sql statement
__PACKAGE__->result_source_instance->name(
\<<EOSQL);
(

    select foo, bar
    from baz
) 
EOSQL

__PACKAGE__->add_columns(
    qw/ foo bar /
);
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Note that SQL::Translator will have trouble ->deploying this kind of table, and you need a hook to remove this table from the definition with something like:

package MySchema;


use strict;
use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/;

sub sqlt_deploy_hook {
    my ($self, $sqlt_schema) = @_;
    my @pesky_tables = grep /^SCALAR\(0x[0-9A-F]+\)/i, keys %{ $sqlt_s
+chema->{tables} };
    $sqlt_schema->drop_table( $_ ) for @pesky_tables;
    local $" = ', '; warn "Removed @pesky_tables from list of tables t
+o deploy";
    use Data::Dumper;
#die Dumper $sqlt_schema;

}
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