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# CreateProjectionRequest

> CreateProjectionRequest — Kinetica Node.js API

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  <div className="tsd-signature"><span className="tsd-signature-keyword">interface</span> <span className="tsd-kind-interface">CreateProjectionRequest</span> <span className="tsd-signature-symbol">{"{"}</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#column_names">column\_names</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">\[]</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#options">options</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">?:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">Record</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">\<</span><span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">,</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">></span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#projection_name">projection\_name</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#table_name">table\_name</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">{"}"}</span></div>

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      <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1790">src/types.ts:1790</a></li>
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            <div className="tsd-index-list"><a href="#column_names" className="tsd-index-link"><span>column\_names</span></a> <a href="#options" className="tsd-index-link"><span>options?</span></a> <a href="#projection_name" className="tsd-index-link"><span>projection\_name</span></a> <a href="#table_name" className="tsd-index-link"><span>table\_name</span></a> </div>
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        <h3 className="tsd-anchor-link" id="column_names"><span>column\_names</span></h3>
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          <p>List of columns from <code>table\_name</code> to be included in the projection. Can include derived columns. Can be specified as aliased via the syntax 'column\_name as alias'.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1796">src/types.ts:1796</a></li>
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          <p>Optional parameters.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1798">src/types.ts:1798</a></li>
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          <p>Name of the projection to be created, in \[schema\_name.]table\_name format, using standard name resolution rules and meeting table naming criteria.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1794">src/types.ts:1794</a></li>
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          <p>Name of the existing table on which the projection is to be applied, in \[schema\_name.]table\_name format, using standard name resolution rules. An empty table name creates a projection from a single-row virtual table, where columns specified should be constants or constant expressions.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1792">src/types.ts:1792</a></li>
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