WQL

Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language (WQL) is Microsoft's implementation of the CIM Query Language (CQL), a query language for the Common Information Model standard from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). It is a subset of the standard ANSI SQL with minor semantic changes. A basic WQL query remains fairly understandable for people with basic SQL knowledge.

WQL is dedicated to WMI and is designed to perform queries against the CIM repository to retrieve information or get event notifications.

Example

As an example, the following WQL query selects all the drives on a computer that have less than 2 MB of free space:

SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE FreeSpace < 2000000

See also

• Windows Management Instrumentation
• Common Information Model
• Web-Based Enterprise Management
• Windows PowerShell

External links

• Querying with WQL
• WQL Operators
• WQL-Supported Date Formats
• WQL-Supported Time Formats
• WQL (SQL for WMI)
• Using WQL with the WMI Provider for Server Events
• WMI Queries