How to access the SDSS EDR and 2dF data bases

by: Alex Szalay and John Peacock

The full sdss EDR (Early Data Release) is available now locally
in a SQL server database on a mumon.ifa.hawaii.edu.
The full database is about 60GB (this does not include the raw
photo-images but has all the spectra.) The basic stats are: 13.8 m photoObj,
61 k spectra of which 54 k are not QA or duplicate with about 1.7 m specLines.

2dF has about 100k public spectra, which we also have on CD available
locally.

Alex Szalay will give an informal lunch time talk/hands on demonstration of
how to use the SDSS data base in practice. John Peacock will give a similar
talk/demonstration on how to access and use the 2dF data.