System tables are tables included behind the scenes by vendor RDBMS systems. For example, these are the tables found in master, msdb and model in sql server. They also appear when features such as cdc, merge replication, and other optional features are installed. This tag is for questions ...

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Referencing system views in SSDT?

I've imported a database into SSDT containing a reference to a system view (specifically, sys.columns). The problem is, that I then get warnings about unresolved references when I build the project ...
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Different Results From sys.databases As Different Users

We have a SQL Agent job that is configured to run as user "dbo". This job gets a list of databases defined in sys.databases that match a naming scheme. The job then performs some dynamic SQL to ...
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Capturing datetime of change in SQL Server CDC

So we've started exploring using change data capture on one of our production databases. We'd like to know the datetime of each change. Reading through walkthrough's and tutorials etc it seems that ...