Geolocated City (mmcity)

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Deprecated operation

This operation is deprecated and no longer supported. You will still be able to use it and add it manually to your queries, but it won’t appear in the Devo operations menu anymore. Contact us if you have any question.

You can use Geolocated City with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2city) instead.

Description

Geolocates an IPv4 address and returns the corresponding city name.

This operation returns data for public IP addresses. If an IP is private, it will return null.
Use the Geolocated City with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2city) operation if you want to get the cities corresponding to your IPv6 addresses (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

In the demo.ecommerce.data table, we want to get the cities corresponding to the IP addresses in our clientIpAddress column, so we click Create column and select the Geolocated City operation. Select clientIpAddress as the argument and assign a name to the new column - let's call it city.

You will see 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:

mmcity(ip)

Example

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

from demo.ecommerce.data
select mmcity(clientIpAddress) as city