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|    Erland Sommarskog to Joe Cool    |
|    Re: Missing information_schema.tables    |
|    24 Jun 10 22:36:41    |
      6624474d       From: esquel@sommarskog.se              Joe Cool (joecool1969@live.com) writes:       > I have several databases on a SQL2005 server. All were created the       > same way, using the SQL Server Management Studio create new database       > wizard. On ONE and ONE ONLY of those databases if I try to generate a       > list of tables in that database using:       >       > select table_name from information_schema.tables where table_type =       > 'BASE TABLE' order by table_name       >       > I get the following error:       >       > Invalid object name 'information_schema.tables'.       >       > If I check the list of system views with the object browser, the view       > is indeed there.       >       > This works just fine for all of the other databases on the same       > server.       >       > Any ideas why I am getting this error?              It's spelled INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES. Which does not matter in a       database with a case-insensitive collation, but in a database       with a case-sensitive or binary collation it does.                     --       Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se              Links for SQL Server Books Online:       SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx       SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx       SQL 2000: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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