Non-technical word or phrase to describe a data "query"

Solution 1:

I would expect your colleague to understand that the same "parameters" were used to produce the data set each time.

Parameter - from MW-O:

2: any of a set of physical properties whose values determine the characteristics or behavior of something

In your example, the "set of physical properties" (the parameters) would be the specifics of the query that were used to select and filter the data.

Solution 2:

It seems to me that you want to reassure your reader that the results are exactly comparable to, and just as valid as, the statistics that the reader has received previously. It's probably irrelevant whether you ran the same query, ran the same procedure that extracts lots of data and then processes it to make statistics, or followed the same manual steps to do so by hand. The point is that the process was identical, and the results are reliably comparable.

Therefore, I'd suggest something like:

... produced using our standard method for these statistics.

or

... produced using my standard These-Statistics tool.

"Standard" gives a sense of stability and implies that it's what you've always used. "Method," "tool," or even "process" says what was standard - the way you got the statistics. Naming the method/process/tool after the results it produces ("These Statistics tool") would be especially useful, since in the future, you can refer to this name to refer specifically to this process and not have to refer to generic descriptions.

Solution 3:

OneLook is a website that links to several dictionaries, including specialized dictionaries. I decided to start looking there.

OneLook returned 10 hits for computing dictionaries, including this one, from the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC):

query A user's (or agent's) request for information, generally as a formal request to a database or search engine.

So, with that as inspiration, we might say:

Attached are the results from the usual information request.

Another way we could say this (and avoid the word usual) might be:

The results are attached. All of these results were generated from the same retrieval request.

The word retrieval was inspired by the entry at the Database Glossary, which I also found via OneLook:

Query Definition: Queries are the primary mechanism for retrieving information from a database and consist of questions presented to the database in a predefined format.

Solution 4:

This dataset was produced using the same selection criteria we have been using all along.