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qualified subset

• the list of rows established and refined by searches of keyword keys. You can either retrieve the rows represented in the qualified subset by calling oaselect and oafetch, or you can further qualify the rows by successive calls to oaqualify.

qualify

• Omnidex Extended SQL statement that "qualifies" rows based on specified criteria.
• Obtain an Omnidex ID list of records that match specified criteria.

qualifying count

• The number of rows currently represented by the qualified subset. This number is returned to the oaqualify status structure and is displayed at the bottom of the prompt screen for an OMNIDEX operation in DATADEX.

query

• a request made to a database for a subset of records defined by specific criteria.

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