PRESENTED BY

KRISHNAKANTA KAYAL
&
KUMAR GAURAV
 ‘DATA ABOUT DATA’

 A metadata record consists of a set of

attributes, or elements, necessary to describe
the resource in question
 Metadata is the control panel of data warehouse.

 It’s the data that describes data warehouse and

business intelligence:
Reports
Cubes
Tables (Records, Segments, Entities, etc.)
Columns (Fields, Attributes, Data Elements, etc.)
Keys
Indexes
 Data warehousing has specific metadata
requirements. 
 Metadata that describes tables typically
includes:
Physical Name
Logical Name
Type: Fact, Dimension, Bridge
Role: Legacy, OLTP, Stage,
DBMS: DB2, Informix, MS SQL Server, Oracle,
Sybase
Location
Definition
Notes
Metadata can be managed through individual
tools:
 Metadata manager / repository
 Metadata extract tools
 Data modeling
 ETL
 BI Reporting
 Business Metadata

In IT, Business Metadata is adding

additional text or statement around a
particular word that adds value to data.
 Business Metadata is about creating

definitions, business rules.

 Technical metadata describes information:

 About technology such as the ownership of the database.

Physical characteristics of a database (in oracle, table space,

extents, segments, blocks, partitions etc).

Performance tuning (processors, indexing), table name, column

name, data type, relationship between the tables, constraints,
abbreviations, derivation rules, glossary, data dictionary, etc., and
is used by the technical team.
 Metadata can be obtained through a
manual process of keying in metadata or
through automated processes.

 Scanners can extract metadata from text

such as SQL DDL or COBOL programs. Other
tools can directly access metadata through
SQL catalogs and other metadata sources.
.
 In ETL, Metadata Repository is where all the metadata
information about source, target, transformations,
mapping, wokflows, sessions etc., are stored.
 From this repository, metadata can be manipulated,
queried and retrieved with the help of wizards provided
by metadata capturing tools.
 During the ETL process, when we are mapping source
and target systems, we are actually mapping their
metadata.