(Continuation of the Metadata 2.0 series)
Mr. Kimball’s group has architected a structure for tracking changes in the warehouse. This includes the execution of SSIS packages and how, when, and what data those packages changed. This powerful feature of a data warehouse gets special treatment in the output of MetaShare.
There are special metadata attributes allocated to describing whether a table or column is associated with the Audit Subsystem. These attributes and tables are moved to the bottom of a MetaShare generated page in a special location so that they are easy to find and well as easy to ignore. This keeps all of the business attributes all together at the top of the page.
To read more about the Audit Subsystem, take a look at the Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit book written by Warren and Joy.
More about how the MetaShare generated pages and user generated content in the next article.
Posted by Mark Garner 
