topic_attribute_table(1grass)

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okay bestie, welcome to topic_attribute_table — it's the topic page for, you guessed it, the attribute table family of tools in GRASS. GRASS 8.5.0, the whole reference manual, all of it, let's go 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

topic_attribute_table — the topic index for attribute table 🌈

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

this is the roster, the whole squad, every tool that touches an attribute table. no cap, here's the full list:

• db.columns — lists all the columns in a table you point it at 📋
• db.connect — prints or sets the general DB connection for the current mapset 🔌
• db.copy — copies a table, dupe it, slay 💫
• db.createdb — makes you a brand new, completely empty database 🎀
• db.databases — lists every database for a given driver and location 🗂️
• db.dropcolumn — yeets a column out of the selected attribute table ✂️
• db.dropdb — removes a database that already exists 💀
• db.droptable — drops an attribute table, gone, bye 🙈
• db.execute — runs literally any SQL statement you want 👑
• db.select — selects data out of an attribute table 🔍
• db.tables — lists all the tables in a given database 📚
• db.test — tests the database driver; the database has to exist and has to 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 in the current mapset over 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 go check out the corresponding keyword attribute table for even more references, iykyk 🔥

🦋 INDEXES 🦋

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

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