# JuliaDB won't show data!

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliadb-wont-show-data/22664>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** juliadb\
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliadb-wont-show-data/22664 "2019-04-03T00:19:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![alphasig329](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alphasig329/32/9794_2.png) [@alphasig329](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alphasig329)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliadb-wont-show-data/22664/1 "2019-04-03T00:19:31Z")

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I am trying to adapt some code from R to Julia and I am interested in utilizing JuliaDB. I have successfully loaded my data and have create some features. However I am trying to look at the head of the data, but I continously get the meta data of which list the colnames and type.

I followed this website ([Julia: Data Wrangling using JuliaDB.jl and JuliaDBMeta.jl | juliabloggers.com](https://www.juliabloggers.com/julia-data-wrangling-using-juliadb-jl-and-juliadbmeta-jl/)) and typed in the code select(data\_table, colnames(data\_table))[1:6], but I get the same metadata just with it saying that the table has six rows.

Is there anything I can do to view the data?

Thanks,

James

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**Author:** ![joshday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joshday/32/368_2.png) [@joshday](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joshday)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliadb-wont-show-data/22664/2 "2019-04-03T00:24:39Z")

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When the table is too wide to display, it will only show the metadata. You can circumvent that behavior with `IndexedTables.set_show_compact!(false)`

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**Author:** ![alphasig329](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alphasig329/32/9794_2.png) [@alphasig329](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alphasig329)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliadb-wont-show-data/22664/3 "2019-04-03T00:28:21Z")

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You are a gentleman and a scholar. Many thanks!