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The entity filter is a collection of conditions that allows you to include or exclude database objects. Conditions are organized into units called groups. A single group contains conditions combined with the same operator: AND/OR. The groups themselves can be are combined with an operator that may can be the same as or different from the conditions' operator.

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There is no limit to the number of groups that a filter can have or the number of conditions contained in a single group. In order to To keep the filter simple, we recommend that you place all conditions that can be combined with a common operator in the same group. Create additional groups only if you need conditions that require a different operatoroperators.

The following filter, for example, defines two conditions combined with the AND operator. It requires only one group.

• name does not start with "v_temp" and
• name does not contain "temp"

The following filter contains two conditions combined with the AND operator and requires only one group:

• name does not start with "v_temp" and
• name does not contain "temp"

The following table filter, on the other hand, contains conditions that requires require different operators , therefore and two groups are needed.:

Group 1:

• • name starts with "emp" or
  • name ends with "emp"

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