Permissions on system tables  Reserved columns

Chapter 1: System Tables

Locking schemes used for system tables

In the allpages locking scheme in Adaptive Server, locks are acquired on data and index pages. See the Performance and Tuning Guide: Locking for more information on locking schemes.

In Adaptive Server version 15.0, all system tables use datarow locking except for the following, which use allpages locking:

In addition, the following system tables are “fake”—or non-row-oriented—catalogs that give the appearance of using allpages locking:





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