In the Clickhouse database, there are both tables ...
# general
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In the Clickhouse database, there are both tables and distributed tables. are they identical in terms of usage, just that you can configure it to use the distributed Clickhouse engine or are there some logic in signoz which decides when to use what?
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@Roger Johansson queries should be run against
distributed_
tables. Non distributed tables exist in each shard. If you use table names without
distributed_
, you would be querying against a specific shard