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

SELECT Syntax

SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name

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The WHERE clause is used to extract only those records that fulfil a specified condition.

WHERE Syntax

SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE condition

Example

The following SQL statement selects the firstname and surname of all the people from the country = ‘Mexico', in the people table:

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The ORDER BY clause is used to sort your columns of data by a particular ordering e.g. ASC ascending or DESC descending and even across multiple columns for more advanced sorting.

ORDER BY Syntax

SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE condition
ORDER BY column order

Example Descending order

The following SQL statement selects the firstname and surname of all the people from the country = ‘Mexico', in the people table and then sorts by surname in DESC (descending order):

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You could also add the keyword ASC but in this case, the default behaviour is ascending order.

Example Ascending order

The following SQL statement selects the firstname and surname of all the people from the country = ‘Mexico', in the people table and then sorts by surname in ASC(ascending order - the default):

SELECT firstname, surname
FROM people
WHERE country = 'Mexico'
ORDER BY surname

Example ORDER BY Multiple Columns

The following SQL statement selects the firstname and surname of all the people from the country = ‘Mexico', in the people table and then sorts by surname in DESC order and then firstname in ASC (ascending order - the default):

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If you are interested in digging further into SQL there are a wealth of resources (articles, books, videos online) and your organisation may even have a learning platform with paid resources for you to learn from. In the mean time a useful basic cheatsheet can be found here:https://learnsql.com/blog/sql-basics-cheat-sheet/

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