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In the previous chapter the Table entity of the Business Rules Repository
was designed, implemented, and populated. It is represented by the table
TAB_TABLE_M in the physical database of the repository. The next type of meta-
data that has to be dealt with is the information about the columns that are con-
tained in all database tables. These too must be included in the repository. The
Business Rules Repository must be able to hold metadata about the columns that are
used to contain business-relevant data.
If any data model is examined at the logical level, it can be seen that each entity
has attributes. When a physical database is implemented, the entities are represented
by tables and the attributes by columns. In this chapter we will discuss ...