{"id": "pages:databaseview-hidden", "page": "pages", "ref": "databaseview-hidden", "title": "Hidden tables", "content": "Some tables listed on the database page are treated as hidden. Hidden tables are not completely invisible - they can be accessed through the \"hidden tables\" link at the bottom of the page. They are hidden because they represent low-level implementation details which are generally not useful to end-users of Datasette. \n The following tables are hidden by default: \n \n \n Any table with a name that starts with an underscore - this is a Datasette convention to help plugins easily hide their own internal tables. \n \n \n Tables that have been configured as \"hidden\": true using Hiding tables . \n \n \n *_fts tables that implement SQLite full-text search indexes. \n \n \n Tables relating to the inner workings of the SpatiaLite SQLite extension. \n \n \n sqlite_stat tables used to store statistics used by the query optimizer.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Pages and API endpoints\", \"Database\"]", "references": "[]"}