
Chapter 8: Querying Data
CHAPTER EIGHT: QUERYING DATA 1. Differentiate identifying, selecting, and querying to get feature information. P. 206 2. What is the icon for the Identify tool? P. 208 3. What is the Select Features tool? What is its icon? Why and how to set selectable layers? Pp. 209-210 4. How do you un-select? P. 210 5. What color are selected features? Pp. 211-212 6. What is the yellow color for in selection? P. 213 7. How do you enable hyperlinks in a map? Pp. 214-215 8. How do you create hyperlinks? Pp. 214-216 9. What is the Find tool? P. 216 10. How do you do a query by attributes? Pp. 219-221 11. How do you create a report of your query? Pp. 223-231 CHAPTER 9: JOINING AND RELATING TABLES 1. Why join tables? P. 234-236 2. What is the difference between joining and relating tables? Pp. 235-236 3. How do you associate a non-spatial .dbf table with a spatial geodatabase? Pp. 238-239 4. What happens if the non-spatial (dbf) table does not have as many records as the spatial file? P. 241 5. Once attributes have been added to a layer, how do you get a particular added attribute to show on the map? Pp. 244-246 6. Does the link field have to be spelled the same in the source and destination databases? P. 247 7. What was the "relate" example in the book? Pp. 247-259 8. How do you relate a non-spatial dbf to a spatial layer? P. 252 9. For a given feature in a layer, how can you see related information? Pp. 253-256 10. How do you select all features in a layer matching a value in a related table (in the example, all Pits with lead, where lead is in the related Metals dbf)? Pp. 256-259
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