CPC G06F 16/23 (2019.01) | 18 Claims |
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed by one or more processors, are configurable to cause the one or more processors to:
maintain a data dictionary within a multitenant computing system in which multiple tenants share a single instance of a database, the data dictionary being stored and maintained within an area of the multitenant computing system accessible to a tenant associated with data managed by the data dictionary
generate custom metadata about a database object associated with the tenant, wherein the database object has corresponding objects within the area of the system accessible to the tenant, wherein the custom metadata describes one or more relationships with other data, the custom metadata is specific to the tenant, and the custom metadata is in addition to standard metadata for the database object;
generate one or more custom metadata types based on the custom metadata, wherein the data dictionary maintains:
a connection between selected custom metadata types and a file utilizing the selected custom metadata types;
upon receiving an update to the custom metadata, update, automatically, one or more objects of the custom metadata types within the data dictionary, wherein a database object has corresponding objects in at least two different sandboxes within the multitenant computing system; and
generate a notification to one or more users for objects of the custom metadata types within the data dictionary that cannot be updated automatically, if any.
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