MICROSTRATEGY TUTORIALS

Metadata database
Once you have a data warehouse populated with all the
information your business needs to succeed, how do you
retrieve the information from the database correctly and in
the least amount of time?
The metadata contains information that facilitates the
transfer of data between the data warehouse and the
MicroStrategy application. It stores the object definitions and
the information about the data warehouse, including its
structure.
MicroStrategy uses the metadata to translate user requests
into SQL queries and to translate the SQL queries back into
MicroStrategy objects, such as reports.
The three types of objects that are stored in the metadata are
• schema objects
• application objects
• configuration objects