1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!-- 5 *********************************************************************** 6 * 7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8 * 9 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10 * 11 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12 * 13 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14 * 15 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18 * 19 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24 * 25 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29 * 30 ************************************************************************ 31 --> 32 33<helpdocument version="1.0"> 34<meta> 35<topic id="textsharedguidedata_queriesxhp" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Working with Queries</title> 37<filename>/text/shared/guide/data_queries.xhp</filename> 38</topic> 39<history> 40<created date="2004-08-19T12:57:48">Working with Queries</created> 41<lastedited date="2006-11-28T09:15:16">YJ: checked</lastedited> 42</history> 43</meta> 44<body> 45<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id840784"><bookmark_value>databases;creating queries</bookmark_value> 46<bookmark_value>filtering;data in databases</bookmark_value> 47<bookmark_value>queries;defining (Base)</bookmark_value> 48<bookmark_value>defining;queries (Base)</bookmark_value> 49<bookmark_value>wizards;database queries</bookmark_value> 50<bookmark_value>Query Wizard (Base)</bookmark_value> 51</bookmark><comment>MW added (Base) to 3 entries</comment> 52<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105F9" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="data_queries"><link href="text/shared/guide/data_queries.xhp">Working with Queries</link> 53</variable></paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10617" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">If you often want to access only a subset of your data that can be well defined by a filter condition, you can define a query. This is basically a name for the new view at the filtered data. You open the query and see the current data in the table layout that you defined.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Query With the Query Wizard</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1061E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In %PRODUCTNAME you can create a new query using the <link href="text/shared/explorer/database/querywizard00.xhp">Query Wizard</link>:</paragraph> 57<list type="ordered"> 58<listitem> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10632" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new query.</paragraph> 60</listitem> 61<listitem> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10636" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Queries</emph> icon.</paragraph> 63</listitem> 64<listitem> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Query</emph>.</paragraph> 66</listitem> 67</list> 68<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Query With the Design View</paragraph> 69<list type="ordered"> 70<listitem> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1064C" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new query.</paragraph> 72</listitem> 73<listitem> 74<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Queries</emph> icon.</paragraph> 75</listitem> 76<listitem> 77<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Query in Design View</emph>.</paragraph> 78</listitem> 79</list> 80<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1065F" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">You see the <link href="text/shared/explorer/database/02010100.xhp">Query Design window</link>.</paragraph> 81<section id="relatedtopics"> 82<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1067B" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 83<embedvar href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> 84</paragraph> 85<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10683" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 86<embedvar href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> 87</paragraph> 88</section> 89</body> 90</helpdocument> 91