Many of them implement or standard information schema. ![]() Most popular databases provide access to their metadata with a set of tables or views often called system catalog or data dictionary. In case of relational databases metadata refers to information on their schema and all the other information regarding access, storage, built in programs or any other information about database elements or usage. All those rules defined in a database are called database schema. Metadata is data about data (see those examples to better understand this concept).ĭata in relational databases is stored in structured manner, organized in tables and columns and extended with constraints on the data - primary and unique constraints, foreign keys, check constraints or data types. Let me start with reminding what metadata is.
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