ement perspective you were not differentiating between the
information, and the meta-information. 

GH3&gt;	From a data management perspective: 
*	a database contains data, while 
*	a data dictionary contains metadata describing the data in the
database concerned. 
The difference is that metadata is actually a type of data, and the
implementation of a data dictionary can be, and often is, a database.
Abstractions can thus also be nested. The metadata for the database that
forms a data dictionary is referred