## TABLES

### Definition

The system table TABLES contains all the tables (base tables, view tables, synonyms and results tables) for which the current user has privileges.

### Structure

TABLES

SCHEMANAME | CHAR(32) | Name of the schema of the table
OWNER | CHAR(32) | Name of the owner of the table
TABLENAME | CHAR(32) | Name of the table
PRIVILEGES | CHAR(30) | Privileges of the current user for the table
TYPE | CHAR(8) | Type of table (SYNONYM | SYSTEMS | TABLES)
TABLETYPE | CHAR(8) | Type of table (TABLE | VIEW | SYNONYM | RESULT)
CREATEDATE | DATE(10) | Creation date of the table
CREATETIME | TIME(8) | Creation time of the table
UPDSTATDATE | DATE(10) | Date of the last UPDATE STATISTICS statement executed for the table
UPDSTATTIME | TIME(8) | Time of the last UPDATE STATISTICS statement executed for the table
ALTERDATE | DATE(10) | Change date of the table
ALTERTIME | TIME(8) | Change time of the table
UNLOADED | CHAR(3) | Table is unloaded (YES | NO)
SAMPLE_PERCENT | FIXED(3) | Percentage of table contents to be read for updating statistics
SAMPLE_ROWS | FIXED(10) | Number of rows in table to be read for updating statistics
COMMENT | LONG | Comment on the table
TABLEID | CHAR(8) BYTE | ID of the table in hexadecimal notation
DYNAMIC | CHAR(3) | Table was defined with DYNAMIC option (YES | NO)
ARCHIVE | CHAR(3) | Table was defined with FOR ARCHIVE option (YES | NO)
VARIABLE_COLUMNS | CHAR(3) | Columns are stored with variable length (YES | NO)
VIRTUALKEY | CHAR(3) | Table was defined with the CLUSTER option (YES | NO)

If the TABLES system table is called by the database system administrator, information from all database users’ tables is displayed.

See also:

Evaluating System Tables, TABLES

SQL Reference Manual, Table Name (table_name)