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Results User’s Guide
for UNIX
Querying Multiple Databases
This section describes how to use the Query module to look at information in two or more databases at one time.
When you select the Query option from the Results Main Menu, a list of the Query forms for your connected databases appears. The forms can be listed by description, filename, or program name. Press the MODE key to toggle among the lists.
The lists you see when you start with sports1 and sports2 are:
- By Description. The marker in the lower-left corner of the window tells you that this is a list of form descriptions. The counter in the lower right corner shows you how many forms there are in the list.
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- By File Name. The same list shows the names of the files used to make the forms. The database name appears in parentheses, so you know which database contains the file. All of these files are in the sports database. When you start with another database or more than one database, you see other database names in parentheses.
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- By Program Name. Results automatically creates these program names using the first eight characters of the database filename. If any of these names is already used by other programs, it creates names like
qry
xxxxx.p
for the programs, where xxxxx represents a unique integer value. Thus, each query form has its own unique program name so new query forms do not overwrite existing query forms that have the same name.
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