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11 <title>Querying the contents of a repository (LTPDA Toolbox)</title>
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15 "Presents an overview of the features, system requirements, and starting the toolbox.">
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21 <p style="font-size:1px;">&nbsp;</p>
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25 <tr>
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26 <td valign="baseline"><b>LTPDA Toolbox</b></td><td><a href="../helptoc.html">contents</a></td>
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29 "repo_gui_submit.html"><img src="b_prev.gif" border="0" align=
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30 "bottom" alt="Submitting objects to a repository"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=
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32 "bottom" alt="Performing High-Level Queries"></a></td>
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36 <h1 class="title"><a name="f3-12899" id="f3-12899"></a>Querying the contents of a repository</h1>
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37 <hr>
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40 <p>
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41 Querying an LTPDA repository is done using standard SQL statements. The repository GUI
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42 presents the user with the possibility to graphically build SQL statements which avoids
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43 learning SQL syntax. Currently, the SQL statements that can be built in this way are
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44 restricted to queries on a single database table. High-level queries, searching more database tables at once, are implemented in the following panel.
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45 </p>
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46 <p>
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47 The repository GUI has a query panel which looks like the figure below:
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48 </p>
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49 <br>
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50 <br>
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51 <img src="images/repo_gui_query_1.png" alt="Repo GUI Query">
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52 <br>
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54 <p>
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55 In this figure, you see that the user has built a query to select all objects
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56 submitted on the 24th February 2008. The results will contain the object id,
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57 the submitted date, the experiment title, the experiment description, and the analysis
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58 description. The results will be sorted in descending order of the object id.
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59 </p>
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60 <p>
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61 Executing the query (click the 'Execute query' button) produces the results table
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62 shown below.
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65 <br>
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66 <img src="images/repo_gui_query_2.png" alt="Repo GUI Query Results">
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67 <br>
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70 The query string that is actually executed is presented in the text edit
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71 box above the 'Execute query' button. This query string can be edited to allow for finer
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72 control over the query. This is meant for users who already have a working knowledge of MySQL
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73 SQL syntax.
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92 <td align="right">Performing High-Level Queries</td>
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96 "bottom" alt="Performing High-Level Queries"></a></td>
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100 <p class="copy">&copy;LTP Team</p>
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