what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?
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Answer / praneeth
Meta data is nothing but "Data about data" it gives the
information of data like modified date, data type etc
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Answer / praneeth
Meta data is nothing but "Data about data" it gives the
information of data like modified date, data type etc
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Answer / ramakanth
Every one is saying "Data(2) about Data(1)"
Data(1) refers to Actual data..
Data(2) refers to the data structure --in the sense
Name of the data,Type of the data and length of the data..
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Answer / maruthi
META-DATA,DATA ABOUT DATA IN THE SENSE,(DATA TYPE,DATA
LENGTH,BELONGS TO WHICH TABLE ,WHICH SCHEMA,WHCIH
COLUMN,WHICH ROW,EACH AND EVERY THING REGARDING TH ACTULLY
DATA IS CALLED METADATA.
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Answer / pavan
medata is nothing but information the about data it gives
data of details
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Answer / maruthi
MEADATA-DATA ABOUT DATA)IN DATA STAGE GO TO ANY STAGE-THEN
SELECT ANY COLUMN IN THAT STAGE-THEN KEEP MOUSE ON THAT
COLUMN-YOU WILL GET SOME OPTIONS ON THAT COLUMN-SELECT
PROPERTIES-U CAN ABLE TO SEE THE META DATA OF THAT
PARTICULAR COLUMN.
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Answer / guest
data about data is called meta data
ex:emp name is data and its data or name (neha)is its data
so emp is a meta data of its name
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Answer / vinay
Data is a subset of metadata,it tells you all the
information about the data.
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