Geolocated Country (mmcountry)

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Description

Geolocates an IPv4 address and returns its corresponding country code.

This operation returns data for public IP addresses. If an IP is private, it will return null.

Use the Geolocated Country with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2country) operation if you want to get the country codes of an IPv6 address (ip6 data type).

How does it work in the search window?

This operation needs only one argument:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
Ip ^mandatory	ip

The data type of the new column is string.

Example

We want to get the country codes corresponding to the IP addresses in our clientIpAddress column, so we click Create column and select the Geolocated country operation. Select clientIpAddress as the argument and assign a name to the new column - let's call it country.

You will get the following result:

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as... and add the operation syntax to create the new column. The syntax is as follows:

mmcountry(ip)

Example

Copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the demo.ecommerce.data table.

from demo.ecommerce.data
select mmcountry(clientIpAddress) as country