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The power of metadata

The power of metadata

- [Instructor] Let's see how this plays out. Shall we? I'm going to carry my rockstar example out a little more. In this table, I'm capturing information about a few very well-known musicians. I'm sure these names are familiar to everyone, right? Now, I've added some basic information about them. You could consider everything after the name column to be metadata. It's additional information about the musicians. I've collected like information for all of them. Now, how can I use that? Well, it's pretty simple really. Let's start by looking at the rockers who play lead guitar. All right, there are three. Not really earthshaking, right? Now, what if we only want lead guitarists who are guys? Well, that's going to slim the results down just a little bit. We're only going to be looking at Lazaro and Bob now. What about musicians who were born before 1990? Okay, here's that information. Now, you may be thinking, hey, this is…

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