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Performing database queries

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Performing database queries

- [Narrator] If your attached source drawings are tied to a database with the link template, you can query the graphics from those source drawings based on a number of criteria in the database itself. This is by far the most powerful query technique for performing source drawing queries. But, if you have a link template that ties to a database before you even attach those drawings you should attach the database first. In this case we're going to attach the zoning query access file. That's found on chapter 30305 zoning query MDB. So I'm just going to drag and drop that into my queryguelph.dwg drawing. And there it is attached. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to attach the source drawings. In this case, I'm going to attach a drawing that is the parcels. So I'll go to my exercise files, alias that points to my desktop exercise files, go to chapters 305 and we're going to attach the parcels. Now, this particular…

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