General. As of 2011, generals in the army, air force or marines earn a pay grade of $15,401 a month, or $184,812 a year, at 20 years of active duty, according to Department of Defense information provided to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Share this item with your network: A data dictionary is a collection of descriptions of the data objects or items in a data model for the benefit of programmers and others who need to refer to them. A first step in analyzing a system of objects with which users interact is to identify each object and its relationship to other objects.
A data dictionary is far superior because it can simply examine the tables as they are, examine the data dictionary, work out a diff, and execute the smallest set of commands to bring the database current. This approach does require of course that the data dictionary be in source control like any other application file.