Teradata Meta Data Services (MDS) is a comprehensive solution for managing metadata in data warehouse environments. This solution enables you to locate, consolidate, manage, and navigate warehouse metadata. Teradata’s single, unified approach makes sense to technical and business users alike, helping you reduce training and development costs while increasing end-user self-sufficiency, system utilization, and productivity.
The Teradata MDS utility for workstation-attached clients, provides an infrastructure for Teradata metadata and for creating tools to interchange metadata with external operational systems, Extraction Transformation and Load (ETL) tools, business intelligence tools, database modeling tools, and any other metadata sources.