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syn.describeTable(id|Table) that outputs the information about the column models. Also perhaps passing a details=true would return information about the size of the table by running a query "select count" and information about the values in columns by doing "select unique(c)" for each each string column c and perhaps "select min(c), max(c)" for numeric columns.
Command Set
We conceptual divide the client commands into three levels (1) Common functions, (2) Advanced functions and (3) low-level Web API functions. The first collection of commands captures the majority of functionality of interest to users. The second collection rounds out the functionality with less frequently used functions. The third set comprises simple, low level wrappers around the Synapse web service interface. By including this third set users can access web services in advance of having specialized commands in the analytic clients.
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