# Column analyses

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
* Qlik Talend Cloud Enterprise Edition
* Qlik Talend Cloud Premium Edition
* Real-Time Big Data Platform

Talend Studio enables you to examine and collect statistics and information about the data available in database columns and in delimited files.

From the Profiling perspective, you can:

* Design a column analysis from scratch and define the analysis settings manually.
* Create column analyses automatically preconfigured with the indicators appropriate to the type you select.

### In this section

* [Creating a column analysis](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2026-09/creating-column-analysis)
* [Creating a basic analysis on a database column](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2026-09/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-R2026-09/creating-basic-column-analysis-on-file)
* [Analyzing discrete data](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2026-09/analyzing-discrete-data)
* [Data mining types](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2026-09/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-R2026-09/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-R2026-09/different-profiling-results-when-running-column-analyses-with-java-and-sql-engines)