SAS Namespace Submodels

Overview of SAS Namespace Submodels

The following submodels have been identified to help you to navigate the SAS Metadata Model:

Analysis Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to describe statistical transformations, multidimensional data sources, and OLAP information.
Authorization Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to define access controls. Metadata objects based on authorization metadata types can be associated with metadata objects describing people, repositories, and application elements to control access both to the metadata and the data that the metadata describes.
Business Information Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to describe people, their responsibilities, and information about how to contact them, as well as business documentation and other descriptive information.
Foundation Submodel: includes the basic metadata types of the model, from which all other types are derived, and some utility metadata types.
Grouping Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to group metadata objects together in a particular context or hierarchy.
Mining Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to store analytic information associated with data mining.
Prompt Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to define prompts for the SAS Prompt Interface.
Property Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to describe prototypes of metadata objects, parameters for processes, and properties or options for SAS libraries, data sets, connections to servers, or software commands.
Relational Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to describe relational tables and other objects used in a relational database system, such as indexes, columns, keys, and schemas.
Resource Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to describe data resources such as files, directories, SAS libraries, SAS catalogs and catalog entries.
Software Deployment Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to describe software, servers, and connection information.
Transform Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to describe a transformation of data. This can be a logical to physical mapping, or a set of steps that transform input data to a final result.
XML Submodel: includes metadata types that are used to describe XML constructs such as SAS XML LIBNAME Engine map definitions and XPath location paths.

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