June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
Catalog views are the preferred method for returning information used by the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine. There is a catalog view to return information about almost every aspect of SQL Server. The number of catalog views is far too large to list here, but you can gain some insight into the range of information available by looking at Table 7.3, which shows the categories of information covered by catalog views:
TABLE 7.3 Catalog View Categories
Some of the catalog views return information that is new to SQL Server 2014. Examples include the sys.table_types which now indicates if a table has been memory optimized and ...
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