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A broad documentation pass across the areas LanceDB Enterprise and Embedded diverge on most: **Data Curation** -- GPU Function execution, Slurm scheduling (and what Slurm is, for readers new to it), blob late materialization as its own page, joins, aggregation/profiling, sampling, near-duplicate detection, chunking, distributed shuffle, and IVF-partition clustering. **Feature Engineering** -- computed columns and materialized views, restructured to lead with the Function-based path and show the SQL form side by side with Python throughout; a single Auto Refresh page instead of duplicating scheduling details on every refresh page; adaptive execution; checkpointing; GPU and Slurm placement for refresh workers; a Training Cache page for the PyTorch data loader's automatic cache benefit. **Security & Governance** -- an Audit Log reference (schema, access, grants), Secrets promoted to an ordinary catalog object with their own SQL DDL and a vending/rotation guide, and privilege-table fixes verified against the authorization source. **Deployment & Maintenance** -- Horizontal Scaling and OpenTelemetry moved into a real Deployment area; Automated Cleanup folded into Intelligent Auto-Maintenance (every other maintenance decision already lived there); RTE Compaction and Advanced Conflict Resolution documented in depth. **Landing page** -- the Enterprise feature comparison table reorganized (several redundant or stale rows removed, several new areas added), and the "why Enterprise" bullets replaced with ones tied to a concrete page (Performance, Scale, Fault tolerance, Multicloud deployment, Simplify operations) instead of vague promises. Plus a full pass addressing lancedb-gatekeeper's review: a real test-safety bug (a quickstart test could silently overwrite and delete a deployment's own `frames` table), a fabricated SQL statement with no backing implementation, an actual dedup-guarantee bug in `take_row_ids`, and dozens of documentation-accuracy fixes verified against source rather than taken on faith -- each either fixed, or left with an explicit note on why it needs a feature or deployment owner's sign-off instead of being guessed at. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_018PXMCbRH6i5w47TsjeEUMT --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
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title: "Naming rules"
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sidebarTitle: "Naming Rules"
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description: "Choose portable names for your data objects and namespace paths."
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icon: signature
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keywords: ["names", "naming", "table name", "namespace", "identifier", "limits"]
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---
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## Naming rules {#rules}
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<span id="objects" />
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Databases, namespaces, tables, views and branches all have names. Choose names
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that describe their purpose, such as `documents`, `prod` or `training_2026`.
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Consistent names make data easier to find and application code easier to read.
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Use the following rules for names that work across LanceDB Embedded and LanceDB Enterprise.
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| Object | Characters | Length |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| Table, materialized view, view | ASCII letters and digits, `-`, `_`, `.` | 1 to 128 characters |
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| Namespace component | ASCII letters and digits, `-`, `_`, `.` | 1 to 64 characters; at most 10 components in a path |
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| Database | ASCII letters and digits, `-`, `_`, `.`, with `/` between components | 1 to 64 characters for the whole name |
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| Branch | Avoid `$` and `:`; use ASCII letters, digits, `-` and `_` for portability | Keep to 1 to 64 characters |
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| Secret | ASCII letters and digits, `-`, `_`, `.` | 1 to 128 characters |
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| Function | ASCII letters and digits, `_` | 1 to 128 characters |
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- Names and individual namespace or database components must not be empty.
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- Table, view, namespace and database components cannot be `.` or `..`.
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- Secret names cannot be `.` or `..`.
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- Avoid `$` and `:` because they separate parts of qualified identifiers.
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- A namespace path beginning with `public` cannot contain another component.
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## Namespace paths {#paths}
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A namespace path is a list of names. `["prod", "search"]` identifies the
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`search` namespace within `prod`. A table named `documents` belongs to that
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namespace; its table name remains `documents`.
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Use the SDK's namespace-path argument to supply the list. A period inside an
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SDK name is a character in that name, not a separator that creates another
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namespace. SQL uses its own qualified-name syntax; see
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[SQL namespace paths](/sql/dql/select#namespaces).
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The empty path `[]` identifies the root namespace.
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## Examples {#examples}
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| Name or path | Guidance |
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| --- | --- |
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| `documents`, `user-events.v2`, `train_2026` | Portable table names |
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| `["prod", "search"]` | A two-component namespace path |
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| `my table` | Use `my_table` instead of a space |
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| `orders$2026` | Use `orders_2026`; `$` is reserved |
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| `résumés` | Use an ASCII name such as `resumes` |
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| `["public", "search"]` | Invalid nesting under `public`; use a different parent namespace |
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<span id="which-versions-check-them" />
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## Learn more {#next}
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- [Namespaces](/management/namespace): create namespaces and address tables.
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- [Branches](/tables/branching): name and manage separate lines of table history.
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- [Limits](/basics/limits): check other constraints before designing your schema.
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