Table information for 'rr.res_table'

General

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

This table is available for ADQL queries and through the TAP endpoint.

Resource Description:

Tables containing the information in the IVOA Registry. To query these tables, use our TAP service.

For more information and example queries, see the RegTAP specification.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'GAVO RegTAP Service (Potsdam mirror)'

Citing this table

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:rr_res_table,
  year=2012,
  title={{GAVO} {RegTAP} Service (Potsdam mirror)},
  author={The {GAVO} data center team},
  url={http://gavo.aip.de/tableinfo/rr.res_table},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {AIP} {DaCHS}}
}

Columns

Sorted alphabetically. [Sort by DB column index]

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
ivoid Ivoid The parent resource. N/A N/A
nrows Nrows An estimate for the number of rows in the table. N/A N/A
schema_index Schema_index Index of the schema this table belongs to, if it belongs to a schema (otherwise NULL). N/A N/A
table_description Table_description A free-text description of the table's contents. N/A N/A
table_index Table_index An arbitrary identifier for the tables belonging to a resource. N/A N/A
table_name Table_name 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. N/A N/A
table_title Table_title A descriptive, human-interpretable name for the table. N/A N/A
table_type Table_type 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. N/A N/A
table_utype Table_utype An identifier for a concept in a data model that the data in this table as a whole represent. N/A N/A

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

Other

The following services may use the data contained in this table:

VOResource

VO nerds may sometimes need VOResource XML for this table.