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Below are SQL statements to be used for various purposes.

Extract metadata

• SELECT * FROM metadatavalue WHERE metadata_field_id = ( SELECT metadata_field_id FROM metadatafieldregistry WHERE element = 'date' AND qualifier = 'issused' )
• SELECT * FROM metadatavalue WHERE metadata_field_id = ( SELECT metadata_field_id FROM metadatafieldregistry WHERE element = 'contributor' AND qualifier = 'advisor' )

Find short dates

• SELECT * FROM metadatavalue,metadatafieldregistry WHERE metadatavalue.metadata_field_id = metadatafieldregistry.metadata_field_id AND element = 'date' AND qualifier = 'accessioned' AND CHAR_LENGTH(text_value) < 10;

Empty date

• SELECT item_id FROM metadatavalue WHERE metadata_field_id = ( SELECT metadata_field_id FROM metadatafieldregistry WHERE element = 'date' AND qualifier = 'accessioned' ) AND text_value = ;

Empty type

• SELECT item_id FROM metadatavalue WHERE metadata_field_id = ( SELECT metadata_field_id FROM metadatafieldregistry WHERE element = 'type') AND text_value = ;

Search for metadata

• SELECT * FROM metadatavalue WHERE text_value like '%Peer%';
• SELECT metadatavalue.text_value FROM public.metadatavalue WHERE metadatavalue.text_value = 'JournalArticles';

Update/replace metadata

• UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_value = 'Journal Article' WHERE text_value = 'Journal Articles'
• UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_value = 'Article' WHERE text_value = (SELECT metadatavalue.text_value FROM public.metadatavalue WHERE metadatavalue.text_value = JournalArticles'); UPDATE +1

List items in collections

• SELECT item_id FROM collection2item WHERE collection_id= '1297';

List items in collections by title

• SELECT metadatavalue.item_id, metadatavalue.text_value FROM public.collection2item, public.metadatavalue WHERE collection2item.item_id = metadatavalue.item_id AND collection_id = 1289 AND metadata_field_id = 64 ORDER BY metadatavalue.item_id ASC;