Geolocated Region (mmregion)

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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 Level 1 Subdivision with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2subdivision1) or Geolocated Level 2 Subdivision with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2subdivision2) instead.

Description

Geolocates an IPv4 address and returns its corresponding region.

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

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

You will get the following result:

In this example, we also applied a filter to remove rows with no values in the region column.

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as... and add the operation syntax to create the new column.

mmregion(ip)

Example

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

from demo.ecommerce.data
select mmregion(clientIpAddress) as region