Built-in Connections

Built-in Connections

About

built-in connections are connections that are always available and therefore that you don't need to add or create them and you can't delete them.

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Tabulify comes actually with the following built-in connections

Name Description
cd the current directory of the local file system
desktop the user desktop directory of the local file system
data-home the data home directory where data is stored by default
entity the location of the entity data set
home the user home directory of the local file system
howto the howto files (ie files used in the howto's)
mem An memory connection used when loading and processing data in memory
md the manifest directory - the directory of the manifest in the local file system
log the location of the tabul logs
app the directory of the app on the local file system
tpcds the table and data of the TPC-DS benchmark
tpcds_query the location of the Tpcds queries
tmp the temporary directory of the local file system


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