
Spatial reference-This is the coordinate system and other related spatial properties for the layer.Geometry type-This determines whether the layer is a point, multipoint, line, or polygon.


You can also type specific queries or cut and paste a query from an external application into the Query text box. Likewise, you can add specific columns in a table to the query by double-clicking them or dragging them from the Columns window into the Query text box. When building a query, a whole table can be added to the Query text box by either double-clicking it or dragging it from the List of Tables window into the Query text box. You specify an SQL query in the Query text box.

To learn more about the data types that ArcGIS supports, see Data types supported in ArcGIS. When you specify a query, all columns that have an unknown data type must either be excluded or changed in the query to a different data type that ArcGIS supports. If the attribute column type is Unknown, this indicates that ArcGIS does not support that data type. However, some less common database types are not supported. ArcGIS can work with most common database types. Each column in a database has a specific data type.
