Latex Table Syntax - latex

Question

\begin{center}
\begin{table}[h!]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
Name of the Dataset File & Number of Cases & Number of Records & Primary Key \\
\hline
Detail Interaction & 147,004 & 2400 & Interaction ID \\
\hline
Detail Incident & \\
\hline
Detail Change & \\
\hline
Detail Activity & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Dataset description of the four datasets provided by Rabobank Group ICT.}
\end{table}
\end{center}
The table doesnt fit to the page. Can someone help me in making it in a page. The table has 4 columns and 5 rows.

Answer 1

I'd suggest writing the table in a more elegant way using booktabs, as there seems to be some superfluous information the headers:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,siunitx}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabular}{ l r r l }
\toprule
Dataset Filename & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Cases} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Records} & Primary Key \\
\midrule
Detail Interaction & \num{147004} & \num{2400} & InteractionID \\
Detail Incident & \num{12345} & \num{20000} & IncidentID \\
Detail Change & \num{12} & \num{412} & ChangeID \\
Detail Activity & \num{7890} & \num{1234567} & ActivityID \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Answer 2

First of all, your code is missing some &s, in lines 11, 13 and 15: try
\begin{table}[h!]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
Name of the Dataset File & Number of Cases & Number of Records & Primary Key \\
\hline
Detail Interaction & 147,004 & 2400 & Interaction ID \\
\hline
Detail Incident & & & \\% 2 occurrences of & added here
\hline
Detail Change & & & \\% 2 occurrences of & added here
\hline
Detail Activity & & & \\% 2 occurrences of & added here
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Dataset description of the four datasets provided by Rabobank Group ICT.}
\end{table}
In a second instance, I advise you to see if you prefer something like
\begin{tabular}{|p{.3\textwidth}|p{.2\textwidth}|p{.2\textwidth}|p{.2\textwidth}|}
instead of just
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
In this case, you can use \par to get a linebreak inside a cell (for example: Name of the\par Dataset File).