Data transformation
- This article is about metadata transformation in computer science. For the statistical concept see data transformation (statistics).
In metadata and data warehouse, a data transformation converts a set of data values from the data format of a source data system into the data format of a destination data system.
Data transformation can be divided into two steps:
Data element to data element mapping is frequently complicated by complex transformations that require one-to-many and many-to-one transformation rules.