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<h5>Abridged Kdb+taq Manual</h5>
<p><h5 id='Summary'>1 Summary</h5></p>
<p>Kdb+taq loads the nyse taq (25 billion+ trades and quotes) data into kdb+. The resulting multi-terabyte kdb+ database can be queried and analyzed at about 1 million ticks per second per cpu. The master, trade and quote data is from daily FTP's