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  • KX Fundamentals Capstone

    Posted by williamo1 on November 29, 2021 at 12:00 am

    Hey, I am having an issue with the Fundamentals Capstone course (on Developer) with trying to obtain the unique option IDs from the trade table in part 1. I have loaded the trade table from the partitioned database using the table importer. I am using the following code but I am getting a par error – unable to operate on a partitioned table.

    q code: uniqueOpts:distinct trade`option_id

    Does anyone have any thoughts on how to answer this? Thanks

    williamo1 replied 9 months, 3 weeks ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • leahs

    Member
    November 29, 2021 at 12:00 am

    Hello,

    Thanks for sharing this with the community. Great content!

    I believe the error generated is a result of your method for retrieving the unique OptionIDs. Given your table is partitioned, this method of taking columns from tables will not work . Hence the ‘unable to operate on a partitioned table’ error.

    I suggest querying the table, meaning avail of Functional qSQL Statements as an alternate approach to obtain the unique OptionIDs from the trade table.

    Functional qSQL information can be studied here: https://code.kx.com/q/basics/funsql/

    Specifically focus your attention on the functional form ‘exec’  https://code.kx.com/q/ref/exec/

    In summary, rather than

     

    uniqueOpts:distinct trade`option_id
    
    

    Create uniqueOpts by following the syntax below (provided in the previous link) where square brackets mark optional elements. This is what we refer to as ‘querying’ the table.

     

    exec [distinct] ps [by pb] from texp [where pw]

     

    The above code is a ‘hint’ and requires modification.

    Hope this helps.

    Kind regards,

    Leah

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