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Question: What is metadata?
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| October 10, 2005 11:58:53 |
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| Mamatha |
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RE: What is metadata?
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| Meta Data- is information that describes about structure and properties of our data. When we define a table we specify each columns name, type of data it holds and restrictions imposed (Constraints) and who owns it. This Information in JDBC Context is called MetaData.In JDBC we have two types of Meta Data(i) ResultSet MetaData(ii) DataBase MetaData(i) ResultSet MetaData is information about data contained in ResultSet(ii) DataBase MetaData is Data about Data |
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