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Example Queries
This page lists a number of examples of queries sent to data held in databases. These examples show how the scientist can make sophisticated queries. The ADQL syntax can be used as templates for similar queries to any suitable databases.
All of these examples show queries being constructed in the Query Builder. Look there for info on how to select suitable database resources, and how the Query Builder is accessible via VOExplorer.
- If you are using vodesktop-2008.1.beta.jar (no number after beta) or a 2007 release of the AstroGrid Desktop (using the Registry version 0.10), then you need to quote any column called DEC or Dec or dec, as in o."dec"