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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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System Tables

System tables contain data about objects in the SQL Server databases (that is, metadata) as well as information that SQL Server components use to do their job. Many of the system tables are now hidden (in the resource database) and are no longer available for direct access by end users. In SQL Server 2008, compatibility views, which are discussed later in this chapter, have the same names as the system tables available in SQL Server 2000. For example, if you had a query in SQL Server 2000 that selected from syscolumns, this query continues to work in SQL Server 2008, but the results come from a view instead of a system table.

The system tables that you can view are now found in some of the system databases, such as msdb or master ...

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