Implementing Databases

This section provides the information that is required to create, modify, drop, and view databases.

In This Section

Topic	Description
Creating a Database (Database Engine)	Provides guidelines for creating databases and filegroups.
Modifying a Database	Provides guidelines for modifying a database. This includes attaching and detaching, reducing, renaming, and setting options.
Viewing Database Metadata	Provides a list of catalog views, system functions and system stored procedures that return database metadata.
Documenting and Scripting Databases	Explains how and why to document a database schema by creating SQL scripts.
Deleting a Database	Explains how to delete a database.