> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Starkey [mailto:jas@...]
> Sent: Jueves 29 de Junio de 2000 12:27
>
> DDL is a different story. The real DDL operations are performed
> by ordinary DML to the system tables. SQL DDL is what is known
> in the biz as syntactic sugar.
>
> Jim Starkey

When I see in the description of the system tables in LangRef "Not used by
SQL objects", what does it mean, that those tables are not touched by such
DDL converted to DML?
Once DML is converted to DDL on system tables, is this converted to BLR
internally, too?

C.