[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: negative number appears in for the Table column

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Field definitions have a description field: _field._desc. Don't expect it to be populated for fields in system tables, apart from the audit tables. They may also have a label (_label) or a column label (_col-label) that may help you understand the intended use of the field. Table definitions also have a description field: _file._desc. Pretty much the same story; only some security, partitioning, multi-tenancy, and auditing tables have descriptions. Other descriptive fields are label (_file-label, blank for system tables) and category (_category). The latter is populated for all system tables.

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