An overview of the Extract toolset

GIS datasets often contain more data than you need. The Extract tools let you select features and attributes in a feature class or table based on a query (SQL expression) or spatial and attribute extraction. The output features and attributes are stored in a feature class or table.

Tools in the Extract toolset

Tool	Description
Clip	Extracts input features that overlay the clip features.
Select	Extracts features from an input feature class or input feature layer, typically using a select or Structured Query Language (SQL) expression and stores them in an output feature class.
Split	Splits an input with overlaying features to create a subset of output feature classes.
Split By Attributes	Splits an input dataset by unique attributes.
Table Select	Selects table records matching a Structured Query Language (SQL) expression and writes them to an output table.