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Pro SQL Server 2022 Administration: A Guide for the Modern DBA

Name: Pro SQL Server 2022 Administration: A Guide for the Modern DBA
Author: Peter A. Carter
ISBN: 9781484288641

by Peter A. Carter

November 2022

Intermediate to advanced

990 pages

19h 19m

English

Apress

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P. A. CarterPro SQL Server 2022 Administrationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8864-1_18

18. SQL Server Metadata

Peter A. Carter¹

(1)

SOUTHAMPTON, UK

Metadata is data that describes other data. SQL Server exposes a vast array of metadata including structural metadata, which describes every object, and descriptive metadata, which described the data itself. Metadata is exposed through a series of

Catalog views
Information schema views
Dynamic management views and functions
System functions
System stored procedures

In this chapter, we will discuss how metadata can be used to perform actions at the instance level, such as expose registry values, examine how metadata ...

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