Commonly Used SQL Clauses

The following list describes the SQL clauses that you will use most frequently. In relation to the previous SQL statements, the WHERE clause is used with the DELETE, UPDATE, and SELECT statements; the remaining clauses are only used with the SELECT statement.

FROM

FROM table_name [,...]

Description:

The FROM clause specifies the tables from which a statement should retrieve data. You can combine the FROM clause with AS to assign aliases to table names. For example, to assign an alias of products to a table called us_products, you use the following syntax:

FROM us_products AS products.

WHERE

WHERE Boolean_expression

Description:

The WHERE clause restricts a statement so that it only returns those rows or records ...

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