CHAPTER 4
Retrieval: The Basics
In this chapter, you will start to access the seven case tables with SQL. To be more precise, you will learn how to retrieve data from your database. For data retrieval, the SQL language offers the SELECT command, introduced in Section 4.1. SQL statements that use the SELECT command are commonly referred to as queries.
An SQL statement has six main clauses. Three of them—SELECT, WHERE, and ORDER BY—are discussed in this chapter in Sections 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4, respectively. An introduction to the remaining three clauses—FROM, GROUP BY, and HAVING—is postponed until Chapter 8.
You can write queries as independent SQL ...
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