If you Google the term data dictionary, you will get 100 or more results of definitions that generally mean the same thing. A "data dictionary" is data about data. It is what defines the items in your ...

A data dictionary is like a bill of materials for a database; it lists all database components, including reports, tables, field names and field types. Such information helps audit databases for ...

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Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Every year, digital data growth hits new records. IDC predicts the world's collected data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. In an era where almost everything is touted as being “big data” how do ...