Types of Databases in SQL Server 1. System Databases 2. User Databases Following are SQL Server System Databases: master - Records all the system-level information for an instance of SQL Server. msdb - Is used by SQL Server Agent for scheduling alerts and jobs. model - Is used as the template for all databases created on the instance of SQL Server. Modifications made to the model database, such as database size, collation, recovery model, and other database options, are applied to any databases created afterward. Resource - Is a read-only database that contains system objects that are included with SQL Server. System objects are physically persisted in the Resource database, but they logically appear in the sys schema of every database. tempdb - Is a workspace for holding temporary objects or intermediate result sets. System Database Detailing: master - The master database records all the system-level information for a SQL Server system. This includes instance-wide metadata such a...
SQL Server SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. SQL Server supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence and analytics applications in corporate IT environments. SQL Server supports ANSI SQL, which is the standard SQL (Structured Query Language) language. However, SQL Server comes with its own implementation of the SQL language, T-SQL. Why SQL Server? Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive database server and information platform offering a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools that help people derive the most value from information at the lowest total-cost-of-ownership. Enjoy high levels of performance, availability, and security; employ more productive management and development tools; and deliver pervasive insight with self-service business intelligence (BI). A complete and integrated platform, Microsoft SQL Server brings it all together to get more value out of existing IT skills and asse...