Figure 2: Example portions of the five tables used by create.table

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|                        sysobjects                     |
|                        ----------                     |
|        name   id   uid   type   userstat   sysstat    |
| -----------   --   ---   ----   --------   -------    |
| syssegments    7     1      S          0         1    |
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|                        sysindexes                     |
|                        ----------                     |
| name          id   idid   dpages   segment   user     |
| -----------   --   ----   ------   -------   ----     |
| syssegments    7      0        1         0      2     |
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|                        syssegments                    |
|                        -----------                    |
|                segment     name   status              |
|                -------   ------   ------              |
|                      0   system        0              |
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|                         syscolumns                    |
|                         ----------                    |
|   id   colid   status   length   usertype   name      |
|   --   -----   ------   ------   --------   -------   |
|    7       1        0        2          6   segment   |
|    7       2        0       30         18   name      |
|    7       3        8        2         13   status    |
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|                          systypes                     |
|                          --------                     |
|       uid   usertype   type   length   name           |
|       ---   --------   ----   ------   --------       |
|         1         13     38        4   intn           |
|         1          6     52        2   smallint       |
|         1         18     39       30   sysname        |
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