Editing Data dictionary (section)

==Platform-specific examples==
Developers use a [[data description specification]] (DDS) to describe data attributes in file descriptions that are external to the application program that processes the data, in the context of an [[IBM i]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/dds/rbafpddsmain.htm |title=DDS documentation for IBM System i V5R3}}</ref> The ''sys.ts$'' table in Oracle stores information about every table in the database. It is part of the data dictionary that is created when the [[Oracle Database]] is created.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dba-oracle.com/concepts/data_dictionary.htm|title=Oracle Concepts - Data Dictionary|website=dba-oracle.com|access-date=2017-02-13}}</ref> Developers may also use DDS context from [[free and open-source software]] (FOSS) for structured and transactional queries in open environments.