What Is a Metabase Registration?
A metabase registration is a block of information that is related to a single SAS data file. Each repository can contain registrations for one or more SAS data files. A multidimensional database (MDDB) is registered in the same way as a SAS table. When you register or define a SAS table in the repository, the default table and column attributes are read and stored. Many objects require information that is not available outside SAS/EIS software, such as • the relative order of drill-down columns • which columns to use in the analyses. When you register data in a repository, default attributes are assigned to each table and column. You must assign attributes in order to qualify your data for use in developing some applications with SAS/EIS objects. The kinds of extended attributes that you assign to your data determine the kinds of objects that recognize the attributes when you develop applications. For example, some objects use data that has extended attributes, such as SUMMARY and HIER
