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PowerBuilder Attributes and System Tables

The following table lists all the PowerBuilder system tables that store the PowerBuilder extended attributes information.

Table Name

Description

PBCATTBL

Contains the font information for the text, labels, headers and so on.

PBCATCOL

Contains details of the extended attributes for each column in each table in the database.

PBCATFMT

Contains definitions of the available formats.

PBCATVLD

Contains definitions of the validation rules.

PBCATEDT

Contains definitions of the edit styles.

The following picture illustrates the PowerBuilder system table columns and primary keys.

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