# Operations

This section covers practical operations you can perform with the AQL interface. These guides walk through schema management, table access, document CRUD, index usage, filtering, and foreign key lookups.

## Schema and Instance Management

AQL organizes data through schemas and instances:

- [2. Schema Management](./2.database_management.md) - Define schemas, create and destroy instances

## Table Access

Tables live inside schema instances:

- [3. Table Operations](./3.table_operations.md) - Access tables and work with their contents

## Document Operations

Documents are the fundamental unit of data in AQL:

- [4. CRUD Operations](./4.crud.md) - Insert, read, update, replace, and delete documents

## Index Operations

Indexes accelerate queries by enabling efficient lookups:

- [5. Index Management](./5.indexes.md) - Define secondary indexes in schema definitions

## Query Operations

Transform and filter data with the query builder:

- [6. Filtering and Querying](./6.filtering.md) - Filter, compare, and transform documents
- [7. Lookup](./7.lookup.md) - Foreign key joins and data population