title: syscolumns table permission issue
body: <p>I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. In SQL Server Management Studio, I can execute the statement "select * from syscolumns" successfully, but I can not find the syscolumns table from SQL Server Management Studio, any ideas what is wrong or how to find this table?</p>
  
  <p>(I mean syscolumns table, not sys.columns view.)</p>
  
  <p>BTW: I have some legacy code which is working on SQL Server 2000 on account foo (using SQL Server authentication mode, other than Windows authentication mode), and on SQL Server 2000 there is a table called syscolumns which my legacy code is using, and I want to find the syscolumns table to manipulate permission to grant account foo only read permission on syscolumns table for security reasons.</p>
  
  <p>thanks in advance,
  George</p>