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    Creating Metadata

    As mentioned above, metadata describes the structure of data.

    Data itself can be contained in flat files, XLS files, DBF files, XML files, or database tables. You need to extract or create metadata in a different way for each of these data sources. You can also create metadata by hand.

    Each description below is valid for both internal and external (shared) metadata.

    Extracting Metadata from a Flat File

    Extracting Metadata from an XLS(X) File

    Extracting Metadata from a Database

    Extracting Metadata from a DBase File

    Extracting Metadata from Salesforce

    SQL Query Metadata

    User Defined Metadata