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10. In the View, you’ll see several points selected as a result of the query.
11. Open the cities layer’s attribute table and only show the selected records
(see Lab 5.2 on page 130 for how to do this).
12. This particular query returned nine records (listed as the nine records
shown selected in the attribute table).
13. Next, we’ll build a compound query to find all cities in South Dakota
with a population of greater than 50,000 persons. Bring up the Select
by Attributes dialog box again, this time creating a query looking for
(“ST” = ‘SD’) (it may still be there from the last time the query was
created—make sure to put in the parentheses).
14. Now click the button for the ‘‘And’’ operator, then finish the second
half of the compound query by selecting the () symbol to place the new
query in parentheses.
15. Then choose POP2000 as the Field (don’t display its unique values),
then select the greater than (>) operator, and lastly, type the number
(Source: Esri® ArcGIS ArcMap ArcInfo graphical user interface
Copyright © Esri.)