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* `fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight.json <https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight.json>`_
* `global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants.json <https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants.json>`_
.. _DatabaseView_hidden:
Hidden tables
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Some tables listed on the database page are treated as hidden. Hidden tables are not completely invisible - they can be accessed through the "hidden tables" link at the bottom of the page. They are hidden because they represent low-level implementation details which are generally not useful to end-users of Datasette.
The following tables are hidden by default:
- Any table with a name that starts with an underscore - this is a Datasette convention to help plugins easily hide their own internal tables.
- Tables that have been configured as ``"hidden": true`` using :ref:`metadata_hiding_tables`.
- ``*_fts`` tables that implement SQLite full-text search indexes.
- Tables relating to the inner workings of the SpatiaLite SQLite extension.
- ``sqlite_stat`` tables used to store statistics used by the query optimizer.
.. _TableView:
Table