# non symbol enums

**URL:** <https://forum.kx.com/t/non-symbol-enums/11685>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Tags:** kdb-and-q\
**Created:** [January 25, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/non-symbol-enums/11685 "2018-01-25T17:32:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![newstudent20171](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c68b51/32.png) [@newstudent20171](https://forum.kx.com/u/newstudent20171)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/non-symbol-enums/11685/1 "2018-01-25T17:32:00Z")

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Subject: non symbol enumsMessage-Id: \<2C95D767-FA77-4CDB-9043-3AED1D9000BC@gmail.com\>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:32:54 -0500To: personal-kdbplus@googlegroups.comMime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 (3124))X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124)Does anyone have any examples of a non-symbol enum ?

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**Author:** ![Flying1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Flying1](https://forum.kx.com/u/Flying1)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/non-symbol-enums/11685/2 "2018-01-26T12:50:00Z")

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Is that possible at all? From the documentation, I don’t see anything that infers non-symbol enums:&nbsp;[https://code.kx.com/q/ref/enums/](https://code.kx.com/q/ref/enums/)

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**Author:** ![newstudent20171](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c68b51/32.png) [@newstudent20171](https://forum.kx.com/u/newstudent20171)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/non-symbol-enums/11685/3 "2018-01-26T14:55:00Z")

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Flying you DUH man ! ( I have said it before)  
Was just asking.

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**Author:** ![pierre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d07c76/32.png) [@pierre](https://forum.kx.com/u/pierre)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/non-symbol-enums/11685/4 "2018-01-26T15:09:00Z")

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link columns are enums with non-sym domain:

http://code.kx.com/q4m3/8\_Tables/#85-foreign-keys-and-virtual-columns