Explanatory Question
Explain DBMS catalog and metadata.
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To provide a high degree of data independence, the definition or the description of the database structure (structure of each file, the type and storage format of each data item) and various constraints on the data are stored separately in a table. This table is known as the DBMS catalog. The information contained in the catalog is called the metadata (data about data).
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