diff --git a/docs-en/12-taos-sql/09-limit.md b/docs-en/12-taos-sql/09-limit.md index 873e484fbb4731294d00df323f8e0d2cbc6b1d30..b987cbcb7886dd35d4fbfefb945d8f36f8d4f399 100644 --- a/docs-en/12-taos-sql/09-limit.md +++ b/docs-en/12-taos-sql/09-limit.md @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ title: Limits & Restrictions ## Naming Rules 1. Only English characters, digits and underscore are allowed -2. Can't be started with digits -3. Case Insensitive without escape character "\`" +2. Can't start with a digit +3. Case insensitive without escape character "\`" 4. Identifier with escape character "\`" To support more flexible table or column names, a new escape character "\`" is introduced. For more details please refer to [escape](/taos-sql/escape). @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The legal character set is `[a-zA-Z0-9!?$%^&*()_–+={[}]:;@~#|<,>.?/]`. - Maximum length of database name is 32 bytes - Maximum length of table name is 192 bytes, excluding the database name prefix and the separator -- Maximum length of each data row is 48K bytes from version 2.1.7.0 , before which the limit is 16K bytes. Please be noted that the upper limit includes the extra 2 bytes consumed by each column of BINARY/NCHAR type. +- Maximum length of each data row is 48K bytes from version 2.1.7.0 , before which the limit is 16K bytes. Please note that the upper limit includes the extra 2 bytes consumed by each column of BINARY/NCHAR type. - Maximum of column name is 64. - Maximum number of columns is 4096. There must be at least 2 columns, and the first column must be timestamp. - Maximum length of tag name is 64. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The legal character set is `[a-zA-Z0-9!?$%^&*()_–+={[}]:;@~#|<,>.?/]`. - Maximum length of singe SQL statement is 1048576, i.e. 1 MB bytes. It can be configured in the parameter `maxSQLLength` in the client side, the applicable range is [65480, 1048576]. - At most 4096 columns (or 1024 prior to 2.1.7.0) can be returned by `SELECT`, functions in the query statement may constitute columns. Error will be returned if the limit is exceeded. - Maximum numbers of databases, STables, tables are only depending on the system resources. -- Maximum of database name is 32 bytes, can't include "." and special characters. +- Maximum of database name is 32 bytes, and it can't include "." or special characters. - Maximum replica number of database is 3 - Maximum length of user name is 23 bytes - Maximum length of password is 15 bytes @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ The legal character set is `[a-zA-Z0-9!?$%^&*()_–+={[}]:;@~#|<,>.?/]`. ## Restrictions of `GROUP BY` -`GROUP BY` can be performed on tags and `TBNAME`. It can be performed on data columns too, with one restriction that only one column and the number of unique values on that column is lower than 100,000. Please be noted that `GROUP BY` can't be performed on float or double type. +`GROUP BY` can be performed on tags and `TBNAME`. It can be performed on data columns too, with one restriction that only one column and the number of unique values on that column is lower than 100,000. Please note that `GROUP BY` can't be performed on float or double types. ## Restrictions of `IS NOT NULL` @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The legal character set is `[a-zA-Z0-9!?$%^&*()_–+={[}]:;@~#|<,>.?/]`. ## Restrictions of `ORDER BY` -- Only one `order by` is allowed for normal table and sub table. +- Only one `order by` is allowed for normal table and subtable. - At most two `order by` are allowed for STable, and the second one must be `ts`. - `order by tag` must be used with `group by tag` on same tag, this rule is also applicable to `tbname`. - `order by column` must be used with `group by column` or `top/bottom` on same column. This rule is applicable to table and STable. @@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ The legal character set is `[a-zA-Z0-9!?$%^&*()_–+={[}]:;@~#|<,>.?/]`. ### Name Restrictions of Table/Column -The name of a table or column can only be composed of ASCII characters, digits and underscore, while digit can't be used as the beginning. The maximum length is 192 bytes. Names are case insensitive. The name mentioned in this rule doesn't include the database name prefix and the separator. +The name of a table or column can only be composed of ASCII characters, digits and underscore, while it can't start with a digit. The maximum length is 192 bytes. Names are case insensitive. The name mentioned in this rule doesn't include the database name prefix and the separator. ### Name Restrictions After Escaping -To support more flexible table or column names, new escape character "`" is introduced in TDengine to avoid the conflict between table name and keywords and break the above restrictions for table name. The escape character is not counted in the length of table name. +To support more flexible table or column names, new escape character "\`" is introduced in TDengine to avoid the conflict between table name and keywords and break the above restrictions for table names. The escape character is not counted in the length of table name. With escaping, the string inside escape characters are case sensitive, i.e. will not be converted to lower case internally.