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30 May,2014 by Jack Vamvas
Question:What is the difference between sysobjects and sys.objects?
Answer: SQL Server Books Online is the best source of information about system tables. In summary:
1) From SQL Server 2005 , a number of system tables were implemented as compatibility views – satisfying backward compatibility. Sysobjects is an example of a backward compatibility view. Sysobjects is not a table but a view
2) The compatibility views expose the equivalent of the SQL Server 2000 metadata but don’t expose the SQL Server 2005 features metadata
3) If using new features , such as Partitioning , use sys.objects rather than compatibility views
4) In code reviews I still see wide usage of compatibility views such as sysobjects. Consider changing to the newer versions
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