Repository attributes are the column fields for a table you import when you create an entity. In the repository data structure, entities are equivalent to database tables (rows and columns) or data files.
Each attribute has properties associated with it called metadata. Attribute metadata includes statistics such as:
- Minimum and maximum field values
- Datatypes
- Distinct values
- Business rule compliance percentage
- Phonetic matches for lookup (soundexes and metaphones)
- Masks and patterns found in the attribute
- Percentiles and standard deviations
If you are looking for attributes with specific metadata characteristics, open a:
- List View of all attributes in an entity
- List View of metadata for a specific attribute
- Summary Data View of an attribute
For example, if you want to see which attributes have metaphones, you can open a List View of all attributes in an entity and check the metaphones column. Any attribute with a value greater than zero (0) has a metaphone.
- More information:
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- Examine metadata for an attribute
- Examine the datatype of an attribute
- Examine attribute values to discover the minimum and maximum values
- Examine value ranges within an attribute
- Examine values to find the shortest length in the attribute
- Examine values to find the longest length in the attribute
- Examine how many values have the same length in an attribute
- Examine the source of an attribute using entity metadata
- Examine the number of attributes in an entity
- Examine distinct values and how often they occur
- Examine NULLs
- Examine soundexes
- Examine potential duplicate rows
- Examine metaphones
- Examine masks
- Examine patterns
- Examine datatype percentage distribution
- Examine standard deviations statistics
- Examine percentile ranking statistics
- Create ignore word tables to use against phrase analysis
- Examine all attributes in a Baseline Analysis project
- To find an attribute's parent entity in the Navigation View, see Navigating to a Parent Entity