Database Queries and Searches

Part of providing a database that is dense, detailed, and diverse, is the ability to know what is in your database. With the core GIS functionality you can do any type of queries on the database just like querying an Oracle or Access database. We also developed uniqueness search tools so you can find the combinations of attributes that provide unique results and programmatic searches that allow you to do a more advanced searches then what is avialable from the core technology.

Database Queries

You can use the following wizard to find features in the database that match your criteria. It is a simple step by step wizard that allows you to set up and save your queries.

Programmatic Searches

If you need to do much more specific searches of the database, you can optionally use the Programmatic Search tool. This tool exposes all the methods available to your objects. This allows you to fine tune your search on properties other then the common attributes and geometry interactions. The type of searching provided for in this tool is unlimited because you are using core programming techniques.

Uniqueness Searches

This is an invaluable tool that allows you to quickly determine the number of unique combinations of attributes exist in your database. This is very useful for creating simulation attribution that is unique to a combination of feature attributes. The benefit of this tool is that you do not have to create simulation attributes that are not needed. If you get additional data, you can rerun this search to determine if new simulation attributes are required.

Buffer Searches

IT3D-DBGS has integrated buffering tools that allow you to create buffers and search for buffer interactions. The creation tool can use attribution derived from the source object to define the buffer distance. The search tool allows you to do many different types of buffer searches such as inside, intersects, and equals-to queries.