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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Second Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Second Edition

by Ronald R. Plew, Ryan K. Stephens
March 2000
Beginner
464 pages
9h 17m
English
Sams
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What Is Contained in the System Catalog?

The system catalog contains a variety of information accessible to many users and is sometimes used for different specific purposes by each of those users.

The system catalog contains information such as the following:

  • User accounts and default settings

  • Privileges and other security information

  • Performance statistics

  • Object sizing

  • Object growth

  • Table structure and storage

  • Index structure and storage

  • Information on other database objects, such as views, synonyms, triggers, and stored procedures

  • Table constraints and referential integrity information

  • User sessions

  • Auditing information

  • Internal database settings

  • Locations of database files

The system catalog is maintained by the database server. For example, when a ...

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