Re: What is metadeta?

Howard..... I'm gone a couple days and now this... :)

I could say I never "metadata I never liked" but that would be annoying to our American native son.

It could well be Oracle Applications or Oracle Discoverer they are referring to.

Metadata as referred to in the Oracle apps/etc world is another envelope around the data dictionary, so that you (or someone) can create wrappers around tables and views that look like

AR_MASTER

ar_gl_yr
ar_gl_mo
ar_bc_period

...

and beautifully transform it into things the suits can pick from like:

HOW_MUCH_WE_MADE
WHO_IS_SUING_US
HOW_MUCH_WE_REALLY_MADE

etc.

A byway and I think more appropriate way toward building metadata is using the Oracle COMMENT command liberally on columns and tables.

If you document as you design and build, it's a heck of a lot easier a few years later, even if you were the one that built it.

RSH. "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message news:a7j2rg$vge$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz...
> Not sure. Maybe there's a third-party app out there called MetaData. Just
> as I frequently open my windows, to let the air in, it's possible that a
> company has taken a perfectly straightforward English word and made a
> product name out of it.
>
> Quite possibly they are referring to XML skills, since XML is all about
> tagging up data with markers which describe what the data actually means.
> The markers (tags) are therefore examples of metadata, since they explain
> what each piece of data means... in other words, 1937921 found in an XML
> document isn't just a meaningless number, but is described by an XML tag
as
> being an Order Number.
>
> I'd have to see such a job add and see the reference in context before
> working out what they are talking about!
>
> Regards
> HJR
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> "Ryan Gaffuri" <rkg100_at_erols.com> wrote in message
> news:a7j16k$pni$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> > I use the data dictionary all the time. Never realized this. So what do
> job
> > ads mean when they say experience working with metadata? Do they mean
the
> > Oracle data dictionary?
> >
> >
> > "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
> > news:a7iq74$ms0$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz...
> > > Metadata is simply data about data. It's not a specifically Oracle
> thing.
> > > Anytime you store data somewhere which explains the meaning of, or
other
> > > attributes about, some data stored in a second location, that's
> metadata.
> > > In Oracle's case, the data dictionary can be called metadata. Its a
> bunch
> > > of records in tables which describe where other (your) tables are
> stored,
> > > how big they are, what the columns are within them, how long those
> columns
> > > are, whether they've got indexes on them and so on.
> > >
> > > It does as a working definition, anyway!
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > HJR
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> > >
> > >
> > > "Ryan Gaffuri" <rkg100_at_erols.com> wrote in message
> > > news:a7ioko$849$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> > > > Dont know if this relates directly to Oracle, but I often see them
> > > mentioned
> > > > together?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 25 2002 - 13:24:07 CST