Content preview from Learn SQL Database Programming
- What character is required at the end of all SQL statements?
- What two clauses are required to select data from a single table?
- Why should you avoid using SELECT * in a query?
- What does the WHERE clause do to your query results?
- What two wildcard operators can you use with LIKE?
- What does an ORDER BY clause do to your query results?
- What options do you have for sorting results in your ORDER BY clause?
- What SQL clause can you use to see the explanation of your query, and what indexes will it use?
- How do you add an index to an existing table?
- How do you see the explanation of a query plan using MySQL Workbench?
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