Catalog Views

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  • Good question, thank you Lokesh-ji.

    Initially I checked the cb-3 box where it stores the poor query details - considering the trace tables from the server-wide catalog tables, but later I unchecked it with doubt (After reading the cb3 several times and the type of information stored in the trace table, this was a lucky guess.)

    Finally got it right. 🙂

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  • Raghavendra Mudugal (8/24/2012)


    Good question, thank you Lokesh-ji.

    Initially I checked the cb-3 box where it stores the poor query details - considering the trace tables from the server-wide catalog tables, but later I unchecked it with doubt (After reading the cb3 several times and the type of information stored in the trace table, this was a lucky guess.)

    Finally got it right. 🙂

    (This QtoD is a great way of learning the SQL bits, one question at a time, thank you SSC)

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    I personally feel that QotD is the best way to learn/refresh our knowledge 🙂

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  • I was doubting on the second option, since it says "inherits" (like in the MSDN article). For me a view that display rows from another view, doesn't inherit rows from that view. We are not talking OO here.

    I also think Microsoft made a wrong choice of words in "Catalog views do not contain information about SQL Server Agent...". These views don't contain any data (hence a view). They should have worded it like "Catalog views do not display information about SQL Server Agent...".

  • @Mighty

    I think that is a little picky - most will understand that a database row cannot inherit in the sense of programmatically subclassing an object. The rows are inherited in the sense that they are a subset of the rows in the base view with a superset of columns - it's a pretty close analogy IMO.

    I thought this was a fairly clear and unambiguous question that made me think a few things through, cheers.

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  • @call.copse

    I know it is a bit picky, but in the MSDN article they even explained it in a more detailed way with base view, and derived view, etc.

    I don't see any added value in that "information". The fact that views can also use views is known by most, if not all, of us, so why expand on that?

  • It's been a good week for questions, and this has been a nice one to finish on.

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  • Good question. Knew three of the choices, had to guess at cb-3 but got it right. Fridays are great!

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  • Guessed wrong, as I'd ruled out "Can inherit rows from other catalog views" on the basis that it is meaningless in this context.

    Obviously not!

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