# Column analyses

### In this section

* [Where to start?](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/where-to-start)
* [Creating a basic analysis on a database column](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/creating-basic-analysis-on-database-column)
* [Creating a basic column analysis on a file](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/creating-basic-column-analysis-on-file)
* [Analyzing discrete data](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/analyzing-discrete-data)
* [Data mining types](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/data-mining-types)
* [Supported character types in column analyses and data masking operations](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/supported-character-types-in-column-analyses-and-data-masking-operations)
* [Different profiling results when running column analyses with the Java and the SQL engines](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/different-profiling-results-when-running-column-analyses-with-java-and-sql-engines)