Note: You can now subscribe to our YouTube video channel for q/kdb+ tutorials. Well, I will tell you what they are not – tables! If you take away one thing from this post, it’s that keyed tables are poorly named and are not tables. However, after reading this post, you should have a better understanding …
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Understanding type casting in q
This post is a follow up to the previous post about datatypes in q. In that post, I went over all the datatypes available in q and how to identify them using character, numeric, or symbol representation. Now, we are ready to discuss another important topic in q: type casting. This post is also available …
Datatypes in q
In this post, we are going to cover all the datatypes available in the programming language, q. These datatypes are known as atoms in q because you cannot reduce them to a smaller datatype. These datatypes are also referred to as nouns and we will discuss why that is in another post when we discuss …
Video: Installing q/kdb+ using conda
After giving it a lot of thought, I have decided to start publishing video tutorials. While I love to write, I think there is definitely additional value to teaching your audience how to do something by showing it to them. In my first video, I will show you how to install q and kdb+ using …
Running kdb+ on Google Cloud (GCP)
Note: You can now subscribe to my blog updates here to receive latest updates. Update: This post is now available as a video tutorial on our YouTube channel. A lot has changed in the kdb+ world recently and as the world moves to the cloud, it was only a matter of time that kdb+ did as well. …