If you include the MULTISCHEMA IS ON clause in your CREATE DATABASE statement, you can store your metadata in multiple schemas. A database with multiple schemas must organize them within catalogs. A catalog is a group of schemas within one database. You name catalogs in CREATE CATALOG or CREATE DATABASE statements. You can also use catalog names to qualify the names of other database elements such as schemas, tables, and views. NOTE In syntax diagrams, the column-name syntax element refers to either the qualified or unqualified form of the name given to the catalog in the CREATE statement. That is, in syntax diagrams, the catalog-name is always defined as: (B)0[m[1mcatalog-name = [m [1m [m [1mqwqqqqqq> <name-of-catalog> qqqqqqqqqqqqqqwq>[m [1m x x [m [1m mq> " q> <alias>.<name-of-catalog> q>" qj [m [1m [m In each multischema database, SQL creates a catalog named RDB$CATALOG. SQL stores all schemas in RDB$CATALOG by default. A multischema database must contain at least one catalog, although you can create more than one catalog for each database. To store a schema in a catalog other than RDB$CATALOG, qualify the schema name with the other catalog's name in the CREATE SCHEMA statement, or use the SET CATALOG statement to change the default catalog before issuing a CREATE SCHEMA statement.