Re: What is metadeta?

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:11:57 +0100
Message-ID: <nnrp9ug0bo1063it9knc533s2c1o4u0nu0@4ax.com>

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:29:46 -0400, "Ryan Gaffuri" <rkg100_at_erols.com> wrote:

>Dont know if this relates directly to Oracle, but I often see them mentioned
>together?
>

This applies to any database product.
Metadata is data *about* the database. So the datadictionary, describing the database is metadata. To make things difficult, this metadata is kept in the database itself. This implies Oracle (or any other database product) automatically and implicitly issues sqlstatements to maintain the metadata. Such statements are commonly called 'recursive sql'

Hth

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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