Exposes Drupal DB tables to Views
This is a simple module which does one thing: provides an admin page for site-builders to choose which tables in a site's Drupal DB to expose to Views.
The module then loads all the fields for each chosen table and detects the data type of the field and sets appropriate views field, sort, filter, and argument filters (for example numeric, string, date, or "default").
It also looks for a primary key of the table and if one is found it sets it as the base field for a views base table and makes the table accessible to views.
If you need more robust data management needs you might try the
Data module. It has a broader focus of data management in general.
Views Expose Tables is focused on simply exposing tables in the Drupal DB to views. Any table. Its small, efficient, and requires no dependencies (other than Views). It also doesn't care if the table is "owned" by another module. Views Expose Tables makes no modifications to the tables or schema.
Use cases: