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2.5. Technical Metadata
Technical metadata represents information that describes how to access the data in its original native data storage. Technical metadata includes things such as datatype, the name of the data in the enterprise information system, and other information that describes the way the native enterprise information system identifies the meta object.
Using our example of an address book database, the following represent the technical metadata we know about the ZIP code column:
These bits of information describe the data and information required to access and process the data in the enterprise information system.
- Named ZIPCode
- Nine characters long
- A string
- Located in the StreetAddress table
- Uses SQL Query Language
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