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Alation Alation Data Catalog Column Example

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Data CatalogData GovernanceData IntelligenceData LineageData QualityBusiness GlossaryMetadata ManagementArtificial Intelligence

Alation Alation Data Catalog Column Example is an example object payload from Alation, with 9 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

idnametitledescriptiondata_typetable_idds_idis_nullableis_primary_key

Example Payload

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{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "sample_name",
  "title": "Sample Title",
  "description": "A sample description",
  "data_type": "table",
  "table_id": 1,
  "ds_id": 1,
  "is_nullable": true,
  "is_primary_key": true
}

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