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From Sean Davis
Subject Re: What is this thing that is called a "Data Dictionary?"
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In response to What is this thing that is called a "Data Dictionary?"  (Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>)
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On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:21, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> Many of the ERD and SQL books that have have read refer to a data
> dictionary.  However, I seem to be missing the point of what it acuatally
> is.  IIRC, some books refer to it as a kind of document created by a DB
> designer, and other suggest that it is a kind of RBDMS created metadata.
>
> Can anyone please offer a consise description or provide a link to that
> describes what it is? Also, how is this information useful to a DBA?

Hi, Richard.  I haven't seen this "term" used before.  But here is a link:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/28/data_dictionary.html

Sean

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