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Summarize

The SUMMARIZE command can be used to easily compute a number of aggregates over a table or a query. The SUMMARIZE command launches a query that computes a number of aggregates over all columns (min, max, approx_unique, avg, std, q25, q50, q75, count), and return these along the column name, column type, and the percentage of NULL values in the column.

Usage

In order to summarize the contents of a table, use SUMMARIZE followed by the table name.

SUMMARIZE tbl;

In order to summarize a query, prepend SUMMARIZE to a query.

SUMMARIZE SELECT * FROM tbl;

Example

Below is an example of SUMMARIZE on the lineitem table of TPC-H SF1 table, generated using the tpch extension.

INSTALL tpch;
LOAD tpch;
CALL dbgen(sf = 1);

SUMMARIZE lineitem;
column_name column_type min max approx_unique avg std q25 q50 q75 count null_percentage
l_orderkey INTEGER 1 6000000 1508227 3000279.604204982 1732187.8734803519 1509447 2989869 4485232 6001215 0.0%
l_partkey INTEGER 1 200000 202598 100017.98932999402 57735.69082650496 49913 99992 150039 6001215 0.0%
l_suppkey INTEGER 1 10000 10061 5000.602606138924 2886.9619987306114 2501 4999 7500 6001215 0.0%
l_linenumber INTEGER 1 7 7 3.0005757167506912 1.7324314036519328 2 3 4 6001215 0.0%
l_quantity DECIMAL(15,2) 1.00 50.00 50 25.507967136654827 14.426262537016918 13 26 38 6001215 0.0%
l_extendedprice DECIMAL(15,2) 901.00 104949.50 923139 38255.138484656854 23300.43871096221 18756 36724 55159 6001215 0.0%
l_discount DECIMAL(15,2) 0.00 0.10 11 0.04999943011540163 0.03161985510812596 0 0 0 6001215 0.0%
l_tax DECIMAL(15,2) 0.00 0.08 9 0.04001350893110812 0.025816551798842728 0 0 0 6001215 0.0%
l_returnflag VARCHAR A R 3 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 6001215 0.0%
l_linestatus VARCHAR F O 2 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 6001215 0.0%
l_shipdate DATE 1992-01-02 1998-12-01 2516 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 6001215 0.0%
l_commitdate DATE 1992-01-31 1998-10-31 2460 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 6001215 0.0%
l_receiptdate DATE 1992-01-04 1998-12-31 2549 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 6001215 0.0%
l_shipinstruct VARCHAR COLLECT COD TAKE BACK RETURN 4 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 6001215 0.0%
l_shipmode VARCHAR AIR TRUCK 7 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 6001215 0.0%
l_comment VARCHAR Tiresias zzle? furiously iro 3558599 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 6001215 0.0%

Using SUMMARIZE in a Subquery

SUMMARIZE can be used a subquery. This allows creating a table from the summary, for example:

CREATE TABLE tbl_summary AS SELECT * FROM (SUMMARIZE tbl);

Summarizing Remote Tables

It is possible to summarize remote tables via the httpfs extension using the SUMMARIZE TABLE statement. For example:

SUMMARIZE TABLE 'https://blobs.duckdb.org/data/Star_Trek-Season_1.csv';
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