Yes, Please try

ibis -d temp -v -q "from temp s, temp t where s.a = 4.9 and s.b = t.c"

Let's know if you have problems with it.

John



On 5/24/12 8:25 PM, Deepa Sahni wrote:
> Hey John,
> thanks for the response but when you say query do you mean the first
> one or the second? If you mean the first then what do I specify instead
> of
> 
> From temp A , temp B
> since I don't have a table name.
> 
> Thanks,
> Deepa
> 
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> From: K. John Wu
> Sent: 5/24/2012 7:49 PM
> To: FastBit Users
> Cc: Deepa Sahni
> Subject: Re: [FastBit-users] ibis : select query with table alias
> Hi, Deepa,
> 
> You are right that the syntax of FastBit is very limited. However, you
> should be able to give the select statement (minus the semicolon) as a
> query statement to ibis.  Please give it a try and let us know how it
> goes for you.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On 5/24/12 6:56 PM, Deepa Sahni wrote:
>>
>> Resending with proper subject line
>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Deepa Sahni <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>        I am trying to run some queries on data I recently loaded into
>>     FastBit. I am using the ibis command line utility to run the queries.
>>
>>     Say I have a table called temp and columns a,b,c.   I am unclear
>>     on how to run the following query.
>>
>>     SELECT COUNT(*) FROM temp
>>     B1,temp B2 WHERE B1.a = 49 AND
>>     B1.b = B2.c;
>>
>>     Now in FastBit when I loaded the data for table temp, I have a
>>     separate data partition for columns a, b and c. Since there is no
>>     table name as such, I am not clear on how to use an alias at a
>>     table level. Will the following query in FastBit achieve the same
>>     thing?
>>
>>     examples\ibis -d tmp -q "select COUNT(*)  WHERE a = 49 AND b = c"
>>
>>     Also the documentation on the sql's query syntax for ibis I found
>>     on the FastBit website is very limited. Can someone point me in
>>     the direction of a good resource.
>>
>>     Thanks in advance,
>>     Deepa
>>
>>
>>
>>
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