1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: retrieving from a database server at least one execution plan for a database statement, the at least one execution plan being retrieved by a computing environment outside the database server; identifying in the at least one execution plan one or more references to one or more objects, identifying the one or more references to the one or more objects being performed outside the database server; assembling metadata from the one or more references in a data structure on one or more computer readable storage media, the metadata reflecting one or more dependencies on the one or more objects; and augmenting other dependency metadata with the metadata from the one or more references, wherein the other dependency metadata comprises metadata identified in one or more other execution plans for one or more other database statements, and wherein the one or more other execution plans are different from the at least one execution plan and the other database statements are different from the database statement.