FILE type

In the Ultra Transcenders books

DBX-DEPDBX-GENAI

Each book explains FILE type in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• PTR

  Turns an IP address back into a host name. These records live in reverse lookup zones.

• Metadata

  Describes data rather than being the data itself, for instance how a file is laid out or what rows each chunk contains, so tools can read things efficiently.

Related terms

• File system view

  When you point Power Query at a folder-type source (a local folder, a SharePoint folder, Azure Blob storage or Azure Data Lake Storage), it returns a listing in which each file appears once, holding its contents as a binary value plus metadata like its name, file type and path.

• PDF

  Portable Document Format, a file type with a fixed layout. Databricks can load these files with the binaryFile source and extract their contents using ai_parse_document.

• PDF

  A printable file type offered when downloading Prism Central reports.

• PE

  Portable executable, the Windows format for files like .dll and .exe. On Windows, Defender for Endpoint file indicators only apply to this file type.

• PST

  Mailbox data file type used by Outlook. Exports of mailbox content from eDiscovery come out either in this format or as one .msg file per message.

• VBK file

  The Veeam file type for a full backup, holding an entire workload image and forming the first link of a backup chain.

• VIB file

  The Veeam file type for an incremental restore point in a forward incremental chain, holding just the blocks that changed since the point before. It has nothing to do with VMware's ESXi package format, which shares the extension.

• VOM

  Oracle archived log data sits in this file type, kept in the repository together with VLB and VLM files.