A table contains a collection of rows and columns, where each row, or record, represents a geographic feature—such as a parcel, power pole, highway, or group of lakes—and each column, or field, describes a particular attribute of the geographic feature, such as its square footage, height, length, and area. Tables are typically stored in a database—for example, INFO, Access, Oracle, SQL Server—or simply in files such as dBASE tables. Tables manage the attributes of geographic features.
The Table tools create and evaluate tabular data from a variety of sources. Analyze and Change Privileges work only with ArcSDE geodatabases. The remainder of the tools provide basic and summary operations for tables.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
Updates database statistics of business tables, feature tables, and delta tables, along with the statistics of those tables' indexes. | |
Establishes or changes user access privileges to the input ArcSDE datasets, stand-alone feature classes, or tables. | |
Writes the rows from an input table, table view, feature class, or feature layer to a new table. If a selection is defined on a feature class or feature layer in ArcMap, only the selected rows are copied out. | |
Creates an ArcSDE, file, or personal geodatabase table, or an INFO or dBASE table. | |
Deletes all or the selected subset of rows from the input. | |
Returns the total number of rows for a feature class, table, layer, or raster. | |
Creates a table from the input table by reducing redundancy in records and flattening one-to-many relationships. |