D.5. RDB$DATABASE

RDB$DATABASE stores basic information about the database. It contains only one record.

Column NameData TypeDescription

RDB$DESCRIPTION

BLOB TEXT

Database comment text

RDB$RELATION_ID

SMALLINT

A number that steps up by one each time a table or view is added to the database

RDB$SECURITY_CLASS

CHAR(31)

The security class defined in RDB$SECURITY_CLASSES in order to apply access control limits common to the entire database

RDB$CHARACTER_SET_NAME

CHAR(31)

The name of the default character set for the database set in the DEFAULT CHARACTER SET clause when the database is created. NULL for character set NONE.