Topic: How to Create Table, Drop Table, and Rename Table in Kusto Query Language (KQL).
How to Create, Drop, and Rename Table in Kusto | Kusto Query Language (KQL) Kusto Query Language is a powerful tool to explore your data and discover patterns, identify anomalies and outliers, and create statistical modeling, and more. The query uses schema entities that are organized in a hierarchy similar to SQL's: databases, tables, and columns. A Kusto query is a read-only request to process data and return results. The request is stated in plain text, using a data-flow model that is easy to read, author, and automate. Kusto queries are made of one or more query statements.
// How to create, Drop. or Rename table in Kusto Query Language
// Syntax : create table TableName(Column1:DataType,ColumnTwo:DataType,....) with ( [docstring = Documentation] [, folder = FolderName] )
// Let's create Customer table with CustomerId,CustomerName,CustomerAddress,Age with docstring=" This is Customer Table"
// in Folder CustomerData
.create table Customer(CustomerId:int ,CustomerName:string,
CustomerAddress:string,Age:int)
with (docstring="this is Customer Table",folder ="CustomerData6")
.show tables
//Let's check the definition of table
.show table Customer schema as json
//Let's drop the table now
.drop table Customer
// if you want to drop multiple tables you can use below
.drop tables (ACustomer,CustomerAsia,CustomerEurope)
.drop tables (ACustomer,CustomerAsia,CustomerEurope)
// Show list of tables
.show tables
// How to Rename Table in Kusto
// Syntax : .rename table OldName to NewName
// Let's say we want to rename CustomerNew table to Customer
.rename table CustomerNew to Customer<div><br />