Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

Chapter 7 Capturing Business Metadata from Existing Data

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are really the same and performs resolution. There are several ways to do this.

One way is to replace the table names Table CDE, Table DFR, and Table KLO

with the name Table QWWE. This works fine as long as there is never any

need to see what the original metadata information was. If, however, there

is a need to retain the original information (often for traceability purposes,

for compliance or legal reasons), you can append the common table name

with the original name. In this case, Table QWWE is appended to the tables.

The following results would appear: Table CDE_QWWE, Table DFR_Q ...