How can you hide the system views table from applications like Microsoft Access? For example, whenever I link to tables in our SQL Server database, INFORMATION_SCHEMA and sys system views are included in the list of tables. This prevents us from finding our tables immediately. How can this be done?
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January 14, 2009 5:05 PM
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December 9, 2009 9:13 PM
it does not seem possible. I reviewed the following threads:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlsecurity/thread/77f6d294-369f-4973-9020-1ef9aab5d191
http://www.developmentnow.com/g/116_2006_6_0_0_773057/How-to-hide-INFORMATION-SCHEMA-and-sys-from-users.htm
http://dbaspot.com/forums/ms-sqlserver/231232-how-hide-information_schema-sys-users.html
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=17365
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic671366-359-1.aspx#bm822529