Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
by Paul Randal Kalen Delaney Kimberly Tripp, and Conor Cunningham
Objects in Plan Cache: The Big Picture
In addition to the DMVs and DMFs discussed so far, there is another metadata object called syscacheobjects that is really just a pseudotable. Prior to SQL Server 2005, there were no Dynamic Management Objects, but we did have about half a dozen of these pseudotables, including sysprocesses and syslockinfo, which took no space on disk and were materialized only when someone executed a query to access them, in a similar manner to the way that Dynamic Management Objects work. These objects are still available in SQL Server 2008. In SQL Server 2000, the pseudotables are available only in the master database, or by using a full object qualification when referencing them. In SQL Server 2008, you can access syscacheobjects ...
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