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What is a federated database and why are federated databases becoming increasingly common? What are examples of databases in your current or previous work environment that could be federated?(I don't have any experience with this) how could the metadata be managed for a federated database?

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A federated database is a logical unification of distinct databases running on independent servers, sharing no resources (including disk), and connected by a LAN. This system takes away the processing load to a single subsystem and distributes it to other subsystems, thus a sharing of processing ...

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