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title: "Data Collector Views (Transact-SQL)"
description: Data Collector Views (Transact-SQL)
author: rwestMSFT
ms.author: randolphwest
ms.date: "03/06/2017"
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# Data Collector Views (Transact-SQL)
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  The data collector offers the following views for displaying information about the data collector configuration, such as collector type properties, collection sets, and collection set items, as well as execution statistics that are obtained when a collection set runs. These views, which are in the **msdb** database, also provide an abstraction layer for the underlying tables. This abstraction enhances security by preventing direct access to the tables, while permitting changes to the tables without affecting any associated applications.  

:::row:::
    :::column:::
        [syscollector_collection_items (Transact-SQL)](../../relational-databases/system-catalog-views/syscollector-collection-items-transact-sql.md)
        
        [syscollector_collector_types (Transact-SQL)](../../relational-databases/system-catalog-views/syscollector-collector-types-transact-sql.md)
        
        [syscollector_execution_log (Transact-SQL)](../../relational-databases/system-catalog-views/syscollector-execution-log-transact-sql.md)
        
        [syscollector_execution_stats (Transact-SQL)](../../relational-databases/system-catalog-views/syscollector-execution-stats-transact-sql.md)
    :::column-end:::
    :::column:::
        [syscollector_collection_sets (Transact-SQL)](../../relational-databases/system-catalog-views/syscollector-collection-sets-transact-sql.md)
        
        [syscollector_config_store (Transact-SQL)](../../relational-databases/system-catalog-views/syscollector-config-store-transact-sql.md)
        
        [syscollector_execution_log_full (Transact-SQL)](../../relational-databases/system-catalog-views/syscollector-execution-log-full-transact-sql.md)
    :::column-end:::
:::row-end:::
  
## See Also  
 [Data Collection](../../relational-databases/data-collection/data-collection.md)   
 [Data Collector Stored Procedures (Transact-SQL)](../../relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/data-collector-stored-procedures-transact-sql.md)