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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › What is metadata in Salesforce?

    Tagged: Metadata, Metadata API in Salesforce, Metadata in Salesforce, Metadata WSDL, MetadataService, Object Metadata

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      What is metadata in Salesforce?

      Posted by Anurag algoworks on June 27, 2018 at 1:57 PM

      What is metadata in Salesforce?

      Parul replied 8 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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    • Sanjana

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      June 28, 2018 at 12:20 PM

      Hello Anurag

      Metadata is the data that is used to represent  and give information about other data. It leads us to the detailed data.

      Thank You

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    • Parul

      Member
      September 18, 2018 at 6:54 AM

      Hi,
      Metadata is basically "data that describes other data".

      For example, in Salesforce you can query data like this:

      SELECT FirstName FROM Contact WHERE FirstName='Mike'

       

      Thanks

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