Clause Connectors: AND, OR, and Parentheses

Clauses are implicitly connected with “and” semantics by separating them with at least one whitespace character. For example:

LastName:Wright Department:Sales

This query consists of two clauses and is identical to the following query expression:

LastName:Wright AND Department:Sales

Clauses can be explicitly connected with the uppercase keywords AND and OR. When a DQL query has a mixture of AND and OR clauses, the AND clauses have higher evaluation precedence. For example:

Origin=3 AND Platform=2 OR Timestamp='2011-10-01' AND Size=1000

This is evaluated as if the following parentheses were used:

(Origin=3 AND Platform=2) OR (Timestamp='2011-10-01' AND Size=1000)

Parentheses can be used to change the evaluation order. For example:

Origin=3 AND (Platform=2 OR Timestamp='2011-10-01') AND Size=1000