an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
Also called: data directory
Examples of 'data dictionary' in a sentence
data dictionary
Digital interview files were transcribed, a data dictionary was created and data were coded using the data dictionary.
Kathleen B. Cartmell, Jennifer Young-Pierce, Shannon McGue, Anthony J. Alberg, JohnS. Luque, Maria Zubizarreta, Heather M. Brandt 2018, 'Barriers, facilitators, and potential strategies for increasing HPV vaccination: Astatewide assessment to inform action', Papillomavirus Researchhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405852117300472. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The data dictionary consists of semantics sets for relations and attributes.
Garima Singh, Arun Solanki 2016, 'An algorithm to transform natural language into SQL queries for relational databases',Selforganizologyhttp://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/selforganizology/articles/2016-3(3)/algorithm-to-transform-natural-language-into-SQL-queries.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)