What is an Attribute?

What is an Attribute? - 17.1

Inline Quality and Discovery

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17.1

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English

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Trillium Quality and Discovery

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Inline Quality and Discovery

An attribute is a field or column in an entity.

Note: An attribute cannot exist in a repository without an entity.

Depending on the structure of the source data, an attribute is one of the following:

Attribute Type	Data Source
Column	Relational database
Field	Flat file
Field	COBOL application

The repository uniquely identifies each attribute with a reference number (also called object identity number), allowing for attributes with duplicate names to exist.

To view attributes in a particular entity

In the Navigation View, click the Discover bar, then click the Entities tab.
Right-click the entity that contains attributes you want to view, and select Drill down to attributes.

The Entity Member Attributes List View opens.
(Optional) Double-click an attribute row to view corresponding metadata; for example, the reference number (Ref), the number of distinct values in the attribute (Values), and the number of distinct Masks, Metaphones, and Soundexes.