# Need Query Help
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-query-help/23558
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 5, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-query-help/23558 "2015-05-05T12:30:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ananth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ananth)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-query-help/23558/1 "2015-05-05T12:30:28Z")
Hi,
How to retrieve all the documents in which specified field has value ?
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field:[\* TO \*] matches all documents with the field (from solr wiki
[http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax](http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax) )
Anantha Govindarajan.
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### Author:  [@liorg2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/liorg2)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-query-help/23558/2 "2015-05-06T15:14:24Z")
hi
i hope i understand your question.
you should use exists filter:
[http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-exists-filter.html](http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-exists-filter.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-query-help/23558/3 "2017-07-06T00:15:22Z")