A system, method and article of manufacture for identification of
mergeable data in a data processing system and, more particularly, for
providing mechanisms for facilitating identification of correlated
columns from one or more database tables. One embodiment provides a
computer-implemented method for managing storage of data having an
associated measurement unit in a database table. The method includes
storing the data in a column of the database table and generating units
metadata describing the measurement unit. The units metadata is
associated with the column of the database table.