I have a proposal on how to import translator based medadata in the Teiid Designer instead of creating a custom importer each time we add a new source. To support dynamic VDBs, Teiid team creates metadata facilities for most sources, it is prudent to use same facility in the Designer for importing metadata rather than creating another facility. Currently it is determined that "DatabaseMetadata" object is not sufficient and Teiid does not expose any Admin API method for this. In 8.0, Teiid defined DDL based matadata importer for a translator, if we write a reverse of this, where one can export DDL from the imported metadata then Teiid can provide a Admin API method for this, thus allowing the Teiid Designer to hook into Teiid and retrieve the metadata. Any thoughts? Thank you. Ramesh..