topic_attribute_table(1)

🦋 NAME

topic_attribute_table — it's a topic page from the GRASS GIS User's Manual, and bestie, it's literally the whole attribute table friend group. Every command that touches an attribute table lives here, and we're gonna meet all of them 💖

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💅 TOPIC: ATTRIBUTE TABLE

Okay so here's the full roster, no gatekeeping, no skips, all of them:

• db.columns — lists every single column for a table you name ✨
• db.connect — prints or sets the general DB connection for the current mapset.
• db.copy — copies a table. that's it, that's the whole vibe.
• db.createdb — makes you an empty database, fresh out the box 🎀
• db.databases — lists all the databases for a given driver and location.
• db.describe — describes a table in detail. the full tea ☕
• db.dropcolumn — drops a column from the selected attribute table.
• db.dropdb — removes a database that already exists. bye bye 💀
• db.droptable — drops an attribute table.
• db.execute — runs any SQL statement you throw at it. main character energy fr.
• db.select — selects data from an attribute table.
• db.tables — lists all tables for a given database.
• db.test — tests the database driver; heads up, the database has to actually exist and be set by db.connect.
• t.vect.db.select — prints the attributes of vector maps registered in a space time vector dataset.
• v.db.addcolumn — adds one or more columns to the attribute table connected to a given vector map.
• v.db.addtable — creates a new attribute table and connects it to a given layer of an existing vector map.
• v.db.connect — prints or sets the DB connection for a vector map to its attribute table.
• v.db.dropcolumn — drops a column from the attribute table connected to a given vector map.
• v.db.droprow — removes a vector feature from a vector map through attribute selection.
• v.db.droptable — removes an existing attribute table of a vector map.
• v.db.join — joins a database table to a vector map table.
• v.db.reconnect.all — reconnects attribute tables for all vector maps from the current mapset to a new database.
• v.db.renamecolumn — renames a column in the attribute table connected to a given vector map.
• v.db.select — prints vector map attributes.
• v.db.update — updates a column in the attribute table connected to a vector map.
• v.to.db — populates attribute values from vector features.
• v.vect.stats — counts points in areas, and calculates statistics from point attributes.

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👀 SEE ALSO

Also peep the corresponding keyword attribute table for extra references, iykyk 🫶

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🌈 INDEXES

• Main index
• Topics index
• Keywords index
• Graphical index
• Full index

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© 2003-2025 GRASS Development Team, GRASS GIS 8.4.2 Reference Manual

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