Glossary term
What is Table?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Table" means: One list inside a database, drawn as a grid of rows and columns. It is taught in SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question and Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced. Related terms include Database, Row, Column and Primary key. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Table?
One list inside a database, drawn as a grid of rows and columns. (From SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Table mean in SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question?
One list inside a database, drawn as a grid of rows and columns.
What does Table mean in Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced?
An Excel list with a name, filter arrows and shading. It grows when you add rows and keeps rows together when you sort.
Where is Table taught?
Table is defined in SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question and Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced.
SQL: Ask Any Database Any QuestionMicrosoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced
Which lessons cover Table?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question, lesson 1.1: Build Your Practice Database
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question, lesson 4.1: INNER JOIN: Connect Two Tables
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question, lesson 4.2: Join Three or Four Tables
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced, lesson 1.4: Set up data as a proper list: import, Tables, sort and filter
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced, lesson 2.4: Look up a value: XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced, lesson 3.2: Look up a band: approximate matching
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced, lesson 5.1: Build a chart from a small summary
Which terms are related to Table?
Next to Table in the course glossaries: Database, Row, Column, Primary key, Foreign key, Serial number (dates), Tidy list, Number format, Lookup and key and Relative, absolute and mixed reference.
DatabaseRowColumnPrimary keyForeign keySerial number (dates)Tidy listNumber formatLookup and keyRelative, absolute and mixed reference
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Table?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question: No coding or database experience is needed.
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced: No earlier spreadsheet experience is needed.