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Table information in the system tables
Working with views
To create an unenforced foreign key in Sybase Central:
1
Connect to the database.
2
Click the Tables folder for that database.
3
Click the table holding the primary key, and drag it to the foreign key table.
4
When the primary key table is dropped on the foreign key table, the
Foreign Key Wizard is displayed, which leads you through the process of
creating the foreign key.
For more information, see the Sybase Central online Help.
For more information about using primary and foreign keys, see Chapter 7,
"Ensuring Data Integrity"
All the information about tables in a database is held in the system tables. The
information is distributed among several tables. For more information, see
"System Tables" in Adaptive Server IQ Reference Manual.
You can use Sybase Central or DBISQL to browse the information in these
tables. Type the following command in the DBISQL command window to see
all the columns in the SYS.SYSTABLE table:
SELECT *
FROM SYS.SYSTABLE
To display the system tables in Sybase Central:
1
Connect to the database.
2
Right-click the database, and select Filter Objects from the pop-up menu.
3
Select SYS and OK.
4
When you view the database tables or views with Show System Objects
checked, the system tables or views are also shown.
Views are computed tables. You can use views to show database users exactly
the information you want to present, in a format you can control.
CHAPTER 3
Working with Database Objects
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