• It's not a table : run this in the master table

    Select objectproperty(object_id('sysperfinfo'), 'TableIsFake')

    It will return 1. This means than when you query that table, Sql server meterializes it so that the query can execute, but this information is never actually kept on the hd like a real table.

    checks BOLS : objectproperty::TableIsFake