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Frequently ASked Questions

What are the units of the value on the right in Xmatch(a,b) < 3.5 ?
There are no units for this value. It is the value you would like the chisquare less than.

My query like 'Select a.jm -b.j from ..' does not work why ?
You need to alias the pseudo column like 'Select a.jm -b.j as diffjmjfrom ..'

My query like 'Select t.* from ..' does not work why ?
ADQL0.7.4 has certain limitaions in colum names if the table contains an illegal name the query will break. Some limitaitons of ADQL are :

  • columns with '_'
  • colums named EXP (such as in Rosat)
  • functions with arithmatic params
  • functions with function params.

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