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Near-line storage, where overflow processing could occur when the data
warehouse became very large
Adaptive project marts, where temporary analytical files could be
created
DSS applications, where applications were created using the data found
in the data warehouse
ETL, where data was read from the operational environment and trans-
formed into corporate integrated data in the data warehouse; and so
forth
1.2.6 Metadata in Systems Evolution
Throughout the evolution that has been described in Figures 1.1 through 1.7,
metadata has existed. The classical definition of metadata is “data about data.”
But this simple definition belies the complexity that ...