SCHEMATA (Transact-SQL)
Returns one row for each schema in the current database. To retrieve information from these views, specify the fully qualified name of INFORMATION_SCHEMA.view_name. To retrieve information about all databases in an instance of SQL Server, query the sys.databases (Transact-SQL) catalog view.
Column name |
Data type |
Description |
---|---|---|
CATALOG_NAME |
sysname |
Name of current database |
SCHEMA_NAME |
nvarchar(128) |
Returns the name of the schema. |
SCHEMA_OWNER |
nvarchar(128) |
Schema owner name.
Important
Do not use INFORMATION_SCHEMA views to determine the schema of an object. The only reliable way to find the schema of an object is to query the sys.objects catalog view or use the OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME function.
|
DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_CATALOG |
varchar(6) |
Always returns NULL. |
DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_SCHEMA |
varchar(3) |
Always returns NULL. |
DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME |
sysname |
Returns the name of the default character set. |
Examples
The following example returns information about each schema in the database.
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA;