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Schema vs Table - lowly newbie question

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Looking at the large picture I get the relationship of schemas vs. tables. But...looking at the table provided in the book I'm getting confused. I see that all of the Names in the example below are tables in the database. So what is a schema?

Definition being used for schema is "A schema is a container that you can use to organize database objects. A schema is a way to organize the tables and object within the database." I don't see a separate container, I see a lot of separate tables in a database.

This seems to be implying that a schema is separate from tables sooo, what am I missing?

I'm reading Beginning T-SQL 2012, and using the AdventureWorks database

Name Schema Object
HumanResources.Employee HumanResources Employee
Sales.SalesOrderDetail Sales SalesOrderDetail
Person.Address Person Address

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