About this site
This site is the successor to the Mediawiki site.
It reflects the work of the Kx community since 1993, has many authors, and continues to evolve.
GitHub
Truncated GitHub URLs are prefixed with the GitHub icon and omit the https://github.com/ prefix.
For example, read KxSystems/kdb as https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb.
Reference
The wiki’s Reference section, organised by glyphs, was a good tool for reading q. It was easy to find, for example, all the possible meanings of $. On the other hand, a writer looking for tools to convert between datatypes and representations would have to explore most of the Reference section to be confident she had found them all.
The new site reference has three aims:
- to be a fast prompt for things already learned
- to help reading by showing what terms mean
- to help writing by categorising the tools by semantic topic
Contribute
A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
— John Cage, “Lecture on Nothing”, 1949
The repository for this site is KxSystems/docs. The contribution model is GitHub and Forking Workflow.
To contribute, submit a pull request.
Honor roll
We gratefully acknowledge contributions by pull requests from
- Alexander Belopolsky
- Aleks Bunin
- Angus Wilson
- Andrew in New York
- Chris Shucksmith
- Conor McCarthy
- David Z. Han
- Esperanza Lopez Aguilera
- Geo Carncross
- James Hanna
- kylenarocroc
- Sean Keevey
- Sean O’Hagan
- Rian O’Cuinneagain
- Rikesh
- Thomas Smyth
- Sergey Vidyuk
- William Da Silva
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Images
This site includes images for which Kx holds neither copyright nor permission. These images serve as links to their original sites. We understand this to be fair use.
If you are a copyright holder and object to this use, please write to librarian@kx.com.
Contact
This site is a project of the Librarian.
A librarian’s job is to put information where people can find it.