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| What Are the Metadata Language Elements? |
Overview of Metadata Language Elements
SAS Open Metadata Architecture enables an administrator to define metadata objects that are common to one or more SAS client applications. For example, you can set security that supplements protections from the host environment and other systems.
In most cases, an administrator maintains the metadata by using products like SAS Management Console, SAS Data Integration Studio, or SAS Enterprise Guide. However, an administrator can also maintain metadata by running a SAS program in batch or from the SAS windowing environment. The code that can be submitted in a SAS session uses the SAS metadata language elements.
Many of the metadata language elements enable you to maintain metadata that defines a data source. A convention in the SAS Open Metadata Architecture is to refer to data in terms of SAS libraries, tables, rows, and columns. A data source is defined in metadata as a table. SAS tables are organized by being stored in a library. In SAS documentation, a row in a table is often called an observation, and a column is called a variable.
This book is a reference to the metadata language elements. For information about metadata administration tasks, see the administration books in Recommended Reading.
The SAS commands METABROWSE, METACON, and METAFIND are documented in the online Help that is available from the SAS windowing environment.
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