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Draft: Updates to table learn section #339

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@cmccarthy1 cmccarthy1 changed the title Initial push Updates to table learn section Dec 11, 2024
@cmccarthy1 cmccarthy1 changed the title Updates to table learn section Draft: Updates to table learn section Dec 11, 2024

Unlike in many other programming languages where the tables you encounter are added as a second-class extension to the language, in q they are first-class objects.

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@cmccarthy1 i would add here the "What is a table?" part (lines 27-31, until "interactions with time-series data.)

I see this page's structure like this:

What is a table? (H2)

How to create a table (H3)

Keyed (H3)

Splayed (H3)

Partitioned (H3)

Segmented (H3)

Table storage (H2)

In-memory (H3)

On-disk (H3)

Table object (H2)


!!! tip "Equals means equals"
### What is a Table?

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### What is a Table?
## What is a Table?

| Partitioned Table | A Directory containing multiple folders (partitions) typically dates each containing a splayed table | More than 100 million records or a steadily growing data volume |
| Segmented Table | Partitioned tables distributed across multiple disks | When tables are larger than available disk size or access needs to parallelize |

### Table Object

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### Table Object
## Table Object

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