Field Summary in-db

[Johnny]

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, ...

[Atabarezz]

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...

[ephij]

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.

[i_love_databases]

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