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objectType Table

(Relational) tables that are part of schemata or resources.

Tableivoa:nonnegativeInteger schema_indexivoa:string table_descriptionivoa:string table_nameivoa:nonnegativeInteger table_indexivoa:string table_titleivoa:string table_typeivoa:string table_utypeivoa:nonnegativeInteger nrows

Members

name type mult description
schema_index ivoa:nonnegativeInteger optional Index of the schema this table belongs to, if it belongs to a schema (otherwise NULL).
table_description ivoa:string optional A free-text description of the table's contents.
table_name ivoa:string The fully qualified name of the table. As per VODataService, this includes all catalog or schema prefixes needed to distinguish it in a query, and it comes with SQL delimiters where necessary.
table_index ivoa:nonnegativeInteger An arbitrary identifier for the tables belonging to a resource.
table_title ivoa:string optional A descriptive, human-interpretable name for the table.
table_type ivoa:string optional A name for the role this table plays. Recognized values include 'output', indicating this table is output from a query; 'base_table', indicating a table whose records represent the main subjects of its schema; and 'view', indicating that the table represents a useful combination or subset of other tables. Other values are allowed.
table_utype ivoa:string optional An identifier for a concept in a data model that the data in this table as a whole represent.
nrows ivoa:nonnegativeInteger optional An estimate for the number of rows in the table.

Containment

This is contained by Resource