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Discussion Forum : Introduction to Database - General Questions (Q.No. 14)
14.
You have run an SQL statement that asked the DBMS to display data in a table named USER_TABLES. The results include columns of data labeled "TableName," "NumberOfColumns" and "PrimaryKey." You are looking at ________ .
user data.
metadata
A report
indexes
Answer: Option
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Yogesh Agrawal said:   1 decade ago
Metadata gives information about the tables stored in the database.

Mayuri said:   1 decade ago
Metadata nothing but the data about the data.

Kanhaiya Sharma said:   1 decade ago
In technically way that Metadata gives information about the tables stored in the database.

OR

Metadata nothing but the data about the data.

Balmiki said:   1 decade ago
Its give the infromation about the table. That is data about data.

Sandhya said:   1 decade ago
The definition of database can be stored in metadata. That means the attributes of the database like sno, sname with their sizes also are stored in metadata.

Elumalai said:   1 decade ago
Metadata is data about data. Consider a file with a picture. The picture or the pixels inside the file are data. A description of the picture, like "JPEG format, 300x400 pixels, 72dpi", is metadata, because it describes the content of the file, although it's not the actual data.

Nutan said:   1 decade ago
Metadata is nothing but data about data.

Pardeep Tiwari said:   1 decade ago
Metadata contain the data about data. Means in this question metadata contain TableName Number Of Columns etc about particular database.

Kokilavani.c said:   1 decade ago
Meta data is data about data and it provide information about the table stored in the database.

ROOT said:   1 decade ago
What this data about data means?


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