SQL SELECT STATEMENT

The SELECT statement is used to select data from a database.

The result is stored in a result table, called the result-set.

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name

and

SELECT * FROM table_name

Note: SQL is not case sensitive. SELECT is the same as select.

The "Persons" table:

Now we want to select the content of the columns named "LastName" and "FirstName" from the table above.
We use the following SELECT statement:

SELECT LastName,FirstName FROM Persons

The result-set will look like this:

Now we want to select all the columns from the "Persons" table.
We use the following SELECT statement:

SELECT * FROM Persons

Tip: The asterisk (*) is a quick way of selecting all columns!
The result-set will look like this: