I cannot get the meta of a kdb+ table - sym error

Question

I have a table that I want to find the meta for but I keep getting the following error. I also have similar tables with the same issue and I don't have a sym file. The Trade table for example has the sym column present already so I'm unsure why the error outputs '..sym

q)meta trade '..sym [0] meta trade ^

Any idea what the issue might be?

I tried updating the metadata types but I was unsuccessful resulted in more errors.

Answer 1

You can get rid of the error by creating a sym variable in memory:

sym:`$()

However the enumerated columns will be all nulls. You need the original sym file for the data to make sense.

https://code.kx.com/q/basics/enumerations/