About Table Metadata

The data preparation interface uses table metadata for information about table properties such as the column names and data types. Source tables are registered in metadata with SAS Management Console before you use the data preparation interface. Afterward, you use the data preparation interface to select a source table to use for creating a job.
When you create a prepare data job, you must specify an output table on the Data Output page of the prepare data job. For deployments that use a third-party vendor database as a co-located data provider, the prepare data job can also add the table to the data server. These tables must be registered in metadata so that you can select the table in the data preparation interface in order to load the table to memory on the SAS LASR Analytic Server.
Output tables on prepare data jobs and add to data server jobs are registered whenever you perform any of the following actions:
  • save the job
  • submit the job
  • export the code for the job