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Forms: Table Attributes

Table Attributes are the columns of an external Table.

Form: Table Details List

There are two forms of the Table Attribute list:

  • Detailed list - Shows the attribute name plus other (database specific) details
  • Simple list - Just shows the attribute names

In both cases the lists show all the attributes for the selected Table.

The list below gives the column headers returned for an Oracle database. See Oracle documentation for more details.

Field Description
TABLENAME The name of the table.
COLUMNID Oracle's internal id for the column.
COLUMNNAME The name of the attribute
DATATYPE The Oracle data type.
CHARLENGTH For character types, the column length in characters (not necessarily the same as the length in bytes depending on character sets).
DATAPRECISION For numeric types, the data precision.
DATASCALE For numeric types, the data scale.
NULLABLE Set to "Y" if the column is nullable

Table Attribute Actions

The following actions are possible from a Table Attribute list:

  • Selecting several attributes and dragging onto a modelling pane creates a Database Collector which is linked to the original Datasource. The Collector will be set up to fetch just the selected columns and all the table data.

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