Technical Metadata

The portion of metadata that describes the data definition and programmatic aspects of the data in the data warehouse (e.g. data type, format, domain, physical table name and definition, etc.)

Time Stamp

To associate a date and time with a record or element that captures the moment of some event.

Time Variant

Data whose accuracy is relevant to some moment in time. The three forms of time variant data are continuous time span, event discrete, and periodic discrete data.

Transformation

Converting data to another for in order to enhance is understandability or accessibility by end users. Transformations are defined by a set of rules or algorithms.

Transformation

Modifying a data type or data value. A complex transformation may include mathematical or conditional business logic.

Transport

The process that moves data from one system environment to another via some communication protocol