My users need the same functionnality In-db as the in-memory tool "Field Summary".
The purpose is to discover the data : distribution, minimum, maximum, count,valid, unique, ...
Good to have for profiling purposes, but for some huge tables it may create great workloads at one don't you think...
Would be awesome to make it on a representative sample automatically, a random sample of %5-10 percent and do the analysis on that first for ex...
If your DB is PostgreSQL Greenplum you have this data built into the system table pg_stats. Any db table that has been analyzed will appear there.
Hello Alteryx,
it's probably less than one day of development, it can be shown in demo to customer. What I call a quickfix/quickwin.
Best regards,
Simon
