A schema is a logical grouping of database objects. It also is used for name qualifiers, which help naturally organize database objects by their name. The convention for this is <SCHEMA-NAME>.<OBJECT-NAME>. This also allows more than on object to have the same object name as long as each is in a different schema.
For example, if you sold hardware and software, you could have a HARDWARE and SOFTWARE schema. In each of them, you could have an ORDERS table to differentiate between hardware and software orders (HARDWARE.ORDERS and SOFTWARE.ORDERS).
If a schema is not qualified, or explicitly stated when the object is created, the schema name is the user ID of the user who created the object. If I am logged in as db2 user and create a table named TEMP1, the full name of that table would be DB2USER.TEMP1.
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