Example 1: Creating a catalog for a database using an alias This example shows how an interactive user could attach to the sample database called personnel and create a catalog in that database. (You must use the personnel sample database created with the multischema attribute for this example.) Using an alias, the user distinguishes the personnel database from other databases that may be attached later in the same session. SQL> ATTACH 'ALIAS CORPORATE FILENAME personnel - cont> MULTISCHEMA IS ON'; SQL> -- SQL> -- SQL creates a default catalog called RDB$CATALOG in SQL> -- each multischema database. SQL> -- SQL> SHOW CATALOG; Catalogs in database personnel "CORPORATE.RDB$CATALOG" SQL> -- SQL> -- The SET QUOTING RULES 'SQL99' statement allows the use of SQL> -- double quotation marks, which SQL requires when you SQL> -- qualify a catalog name with an alias. SQL> -- SQL> SET QUOTING RULES 'SQL99'; SQL> CREATE CATALOG "CORPORATE.MARKETING"; SQL> -- SQL> SHOW CATALOG; Catalogs in database personnel "CORPORATE.MARKETING" "CORPORATE.RDB$CATALOG" Example 2: Creating a catalog in the database with the default alias This example shows a CREATE CATALOG clause used in an interactive CREATE DATABASE statement. In this example, the user creates a database without specifying an alias. Because the user is not attached to any other databases, the new database becomes the default alias. SQL> CREATE DATABASE FILENAME inventory cont> MULTISCHEMA IS ON cont> CREATE CATALOG PARTS cont> CREATE SCHEMA PRINTERS AUTHORIZATION DAVIS cont> CREATE TABLE LASER EXTERNAL NAME IS DEPT_2_LASER cont> (SERIAL_NO INT, LOCATION CHAR) cont> CREATE SCHEMA TERMINALS AUTHORIZATION DAVIS cont> CREATE TABLE TERM100 EXTERNAL NAME IS DEPT_2_TERM100 cont> (SERIAL_NO INT, LOCATION CHAR); SQL> SHOW CATALOG; Catalogs in database with filename inventory PARTS RDB$CATALOG SQL> show schemas; Schemas in database with filename inventory PARTS.PRINTERS PARTS.TERMINALS RDB$SCHEMA