Jason Dodson wrote:

>I think the more appropriate question is "Why does it matter?".
>
>Other then a general DB explorer, I couldn't imagine needing to "figure
>out" what dialect a DB object was defined in on the fly.
>
>

I gave a very good reason in my original question.

I have a procedure which will produce a runnable script to create
auxillary tables and triggers to audit data modification on the original
tables. Yes, I suppose I could do this manually for every table in
every database, but....