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3. Retrieving Data

Ben Brumm1 
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia
 

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to see the data that’s in your database. You’ll look at your first SQL statement, the SELECT statement, and see some examples of this on the table you just created.

How Can You See the Data?

In the last chapter, you achieved a lot:
  • You downloaded and installed Oracle Express.

  • You downloaded and ran SQL Developer.

  • You created two new connections and a new user.

  • You created a new table and populated it with sample data.

When you created the table and added the sample data, you used the user interface of SQL Developer—the menu and the fields that appeared ...

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