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。

在oracle中，Schema是一个数据库下的一个用户，例如scott是orcl数据库中的一个模式。 在一个数据库中，我们可能有很多像scott这样的模式

架构->平面图

数据库->房子

桌子->房间

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.

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.

简而言之，模式是整个数据库的定义，因此它包括表、视图、存储过程、索引、主键和外键等。