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how to represent metadata in a data warehouse


I am working on to create a data warehouse. I have made a database which will be the data warehouse and will consist of dimension and fact tables. I know that other than dimension and fact table a data warehouse should also consist of a meta data, now my question is what should be the structure of metadata and all the information it should have?


Solution

  • What about having Azure Data Catalog capture the table and column names and let developers and business users collaborate on the definitions in a UI? This would be a great data dictionary. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-catalog/

    Or if you want to roll your own with extended properties you might do the following: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1637/script-to-build-a-sql-server-data-dictionary-and-report-with-microsoft-excel/