| 摘要 |
<p>Characterizing data includes: reading data from an interface to a data storage system, and storing two or more sets of summary data (200A-200D) summarizing data stored in different respective data sources in the data storage system; and processing the stored sets of summary data to generate system information (208) characterizing data from multiple data sources in the data storage system. The processing includes: analyzing the stored sets of summary data to select two or more data sources that store data satisfying predetermined criteria, and generating the system information including information identifying a potential relationship between fields of records included in different data sources based at least in part on comparison between values from a stored set of summary data summarizing a first of the selected data sources and values from a stored set of summary data summarizing a second of the selected data sources.</p> |
