# Patterns

Available in...

* Big Data Platform
* Cloud API Services Platform
* Cloud Big Data Platform
* Cloud Data Fabric
* Cloud Data Management Platform
* Data Fabric
* Data Management Platform
* Data Services Platform
* MDM Platform
* Real-Time Big Data Platform

Patterns are sets of strings against which you can match the content of the columns to be analyzed.

### In this section

* [Pattern types](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/pattern-types)
* [Managing User-Defined Functions in databases](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/managing-user-defined-functions-in-databases)
* [Adding regular expressions and SQL patterns to column analyses](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/adding-regular-expressions-and-sql-patterns-to-column-analyses)
* [Generating a Job to recuperate regular expressions](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/generating-job-to-recuperate-regular-expressions)
* [Managing regular expressions and SQL patterns](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-06/managing-regular-expressions-and-sql-patterns)