Guides

These guides are short. Each guide solves one problem from start to end. Each guide also links to the reference chapters.

Guide	What it covers
Query a File Collection	Make one table from thousands of NetCDF or Parquet files
Query Data on S3	Credentials, public buckets, and fast object storage
Export Query Results	Write results to Parquet, CSV, NetCDF, GeoParquet or ODV
Speed Up Slow Queries	Diagnose with EXPLAIN. Then fix with pushdown, Atlas or a materialized view

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