1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsharedguidedata_queriesxhp" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Working with Queries</title> 28<filename>/text/shared/guide/data_queries.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30<comment>Working with Queries</comment> 31</meta> 32<body> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id840784"><bookmark_value>databases;creating queries</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>filtering;data in databases</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>queries;defining (Base)</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>defining;queries (Base)</bookmark_value> 37<bookmark_value>wizards;database queries</bookmark_value> 38<bookmark_value>Query Wizard (Base)</bookmark_value> 39</bookmark><comment>MW added (Base) to 3 entries</comment> 40<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> 41</variable></paragraph> 42<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> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Query With the Query Wizard</paragraph> 44<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> 45<list type="ordered"> 46<listitem> 47<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> 48</listitem> 49<listitem> 50<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> 51</listitem> 52<listitem> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Query</emph>.</paragraph> 54</listitem> 55</list> 56<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Query With the Design View</paragraph> 57<list type="ordered"> 58<listitem> 59<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> 60</listitem> 61<listitem> 62<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> 63</listitem> 64<listitem> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Query in Design View</emph>.</paragraph> 66</listitem> 67</list> 68<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> 69<section id="relatedtopics"> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1067B" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 71<embedvar href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> 72</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10683" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 74<embedvar href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> 75</paragraph> 76</section> 77</body> 78</helpdocument> 79