schemata-transact-sql.md

title	SCHEMATA (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs
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SCHEMATA (Transact-SQL)

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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 [!INCLUDEssNoVersion], 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.
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.

Example
The following example, returns information about the schemas in the master database:

SELECT * FROM master.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA;

See Also

System Views (Transact-SQL)
Information Schema Views (Transact-SQL)
sys.databases (Transact-SQL)
sys.schemas (Transact-SQL)
sys.syscharsets (Transact-SQL)