what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?

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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

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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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

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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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

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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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

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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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

Answer / pavan

medata is nothing but information the about data it gives
data of details

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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

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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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

Answer / naresh

Metadata is nothing but data about data .It consists column
name, datatype ,size,precision,scale,constraints if any...

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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

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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what is meta data? Explain? Where it is used?..

Answer / vinay

Data is a subset of metadata,it tells you all the
information about the data.

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