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Astronomical Data Query Language
Version 2.00

IVOA Working Draft 25 March 2008

Interest/Working Group:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOQL
Author(s):
Inaki Ortiz, Jeff Lusted, Pat Dowler, Alexander Szalay, Yuji Shirasaki, Maria A. Nieto- Santisteban, Masatoshi Ohishi, William O’Mullane, Pedro Osuna, the VOQL-TEG and the VOQL Working Group.
Editor(s):
Pedro Osuna and Inaki Ortiz

Abstract

This document describes the Astronomical Data Query Language (ADQL). ADQL has been developed based on SQL92. This document describes the subset of the SQL grammar supported by ADQL. Special restrictions and extensions to SQL92 have been defined in order to support generic and astronomy specific operations.

Status of this document

This is an IVOA Working Draft for review by IVOA members and other interested parties.
It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time.It is inappropriate to use IVOA Working Drafts as reference materials or to cite them as other than "work in progress".



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