SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL, Second Edition

Sample Statements

Now that we’ve covered the basic characteristics of the SELECT statement and SELECT query, let’s take a look at some examples of how these operations are applied in different scenarios. These examples encompass each of the sample databases, and they illustrate the use of the SELECT statement, the SELECT query, and the two supplemental techniques used to establish columns for the translation statement. We’ve also included sample result sets that would be returned by these operations and placed them immediately after the SQL syntax line. The name that appears immediately above a result set has a twofold purpose: It identifies the result set itself, and it is also the name that we assigned to the SQL statement in the example. ...