Explain meta data?



Explain meta data?..

Answer / Pradip Kumar Dubey

Metadata refers to data about data, providing descriptive information about the characteristics, structure, and relationships of other data. In a data warehouse context, metadata includes details about data sources, data types, business rules, transformations, aggregations, and lineage. Metadata plays a crucial role in managing and organizing data within the data warehouse, facilitating efficient data integration, querying, and reporting.

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