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title: Adding a New Table
slug: kronpam-how-to-guides/adding-a-new-table
description: Learn how to add specific tables to Superset for querying in this comprehensive document. Follow the step-by-step instructions, including entering the Table Name and Database, optionally adding the database schema, and saving the configuration. Discover h
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createdAt: 2022-08-18T14:06:16.000Z
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This is the second step of creating your own report with the Reporting module.

Now that you’ve configured a database, you’ll need to add specific tables to Superset that you’d like to query. 

**Step 1:** To add a new table:

1. Under the **Sources** menu, select the **Tables** option.

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- On the resulting page, click on the green plus + sign near the top left.


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-  3\. You only need a few pieces of information to add a new table to Superset:

Enter the **Table Name**.

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Select the target database from the **Database** dropdown menu.

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Optionally, add the database schema. If the table exists in the “default” schema (*e.g*., the public schema in PostgreSQL or Redshift), you can leave the schema field blank.

- Click on the **Save** button to save the configuration.

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When redirected back to the list of tables, you should see a message indicating that your table was created:

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This message also directs you to edit the table configuration. We’ll edit a limited portion of the configuration now - just to get you started - and leave the rest for a more advanced tutorial.



**Step 2:** To edit the table:

1. Click on the **Edit** button next to the table you’ve created.

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2\. On the resulting page, click on the **List Table Column** tab. Here, you’ll define how you can use specific    columns of your table when exploring your data. We’ll run through these options to describe their purpose:

- If you want users to group metrics by a specific field, mark it as **Groupable**.
- If you need to filter on a specific field, mark it as **Filterable**.
- Is this field something you’d like to get a distinct count of? Check the **Count Distinct** box.
- Is this a metric you want to sum or get basic summary statistics for? The **Sum**, **Min**, and **Max** columns will help.
- The **is temporal** field should be checked for any date or time fields. We’ll cover how this manifests itself in analyses in a moment.

Here’s how we’ve configured fields for the weather data. Even for measures like the weather measurements (precipitation, snowfall, etc.), it’s ideal to group and filter by these values:

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  3\. As with the configurations above, click the **Save** button to save these settings.