A schema is not a plan for the entire database. It is a plan/container for a subset of objects (ex.tables) inside a a database. This goes to say that you can have multiple objects(ex. tables) inside one database which don't neccessarily fall under the same functional category. So you can group them under various schemas and give them different user access permissions. That said, I am unsure whether you can have one table under multiple schemas. The Management Studio UI gives a dropdown to assign a schema to a table, and hence making it possible to choose only one schema. I guess if you do it with TSQL, it might create 2 (or multiple) different objects with different object Ids.

模式是数据库对象的集合，其中也包括逻辑结构。 它具有拥有它的用户的名称。 一个数据库可以有任意数量的Schema。 数据库中的一个表可以出现在两个同名的不同模式中。 用户可以查看已为其分配选择特权的任何模式。

架构->平面图

数据库->房子

桌子->房间

来自PostgreSQL文档:

A database contains one or more named schemas, which in turn contain tables. Schemas also contain other kinds of named objects, including data types, functions, and operators. The same object name can be used in different schemas without conflict; for example, both schema1 and myschema can contain tables named mytable. Unlike databases, schemas are not rigidly separated: a user can access objects in any of the schemas in the database he is connected to, if he has privileges to do so. There are several reasons why one might want to use schemas: To allow many users to use one database without interfering with each other. To organize database objects into logical groups to make them more manageable. Third-party applications can be put into separate schemas so they do not collide with the names of other objects. Schemas are analogous to directories at the operating system level, except that schemas cannot be nested.

我试着根据我对以下类比的理解来回答:

A database is like the house In the house there are several types of rooms. Assuming that you're living in a really big house. You really don't want your living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, mezzanines, treehouses, etc. to look the same. They each need a blueprint to tell how to build/use them. In other words, they each need a schema to tell how to build/use a bathroom, for example. Of course, you may have several bedrooms, each looks slightly different. You and your wife/husband's bedroom is slightly different from your kids' bedroom. Each bedroom is analogous to a table in your database. A DBMS is like a butler in the house. He manages literally everything.

数据库模式是对表、视图、存储过程等对象进行逻辑分组的一种方式。把模式看作是对象的容器。 表是行和列的集合。 所有表的组合构成一个db。