Metadata
Metadata is data about data (🤯). It’s a term that developers use to describe higher level data about something, but not that thing itself. A picture, for example, is a bunch of data (pixels). But when and where that picture was taken is metadata. The same thing is true for an entire set of data: a table in a database with entries about your users is a bunch of data, but how large that table is, or what permissions different developers have for it, that’s metadata.
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The Details: Data Warehouses
A deep dive into data warehouses, what they do, and how different ones stack up.
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