Microsoft® Windows® Scripting with WMI: Self-Paced Learning Guide

60 Part II: WMI Queries and Events

Using the Select Statement

The Select statement is the most basic WQL command. It is one of three commands that can

be used to retrieve data from WMI. Most of the time, when you need to retrieve data from

WMI, you will use the Select statement, so it is important to understand it. Basically, you can

perform the following four kinds of Select statements, which are discussed in the following

subsections.

■ Select everything from everything

■ Select some things from everything

■ Select everything from some things

■ Select some things from some things

Select Everything from Everything

When you compose WQL statements, you have the opportunity to choose everything. This is

represented by the asterisk (*). ...