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SQL Server FAQ - Selecting Some Specific Rows from a Table

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How To Select Some Specific Rows from a Table?

If you don't want select all rows from a table, you can specify a WHERE clause to tell the query to return only the rows that meets the condition defined in the WHERE clause. The WHERE clause condition is a normal Boolean expression. If any data from the table needs to be used in the Boolean expression, column names should be used to represent the table data.

The first select statement below only returns rows that have url names containing the letter "a". The second select statement returns no rows, because the WHERE clause results FALSE for all rows in the table.

SELECT * FROM fyi_links WHERE url LIKE '%a%'
GO
id    url                 notes   counts   created
102   dba.fyicenter.com   NULL    0        2007-05-19
103   sqa.fyicenter.com   NULL    NULL     2007-05-19

SELECT * FROM fyi_links WHERE id < 100
GO
0 row

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1. What Is a SELECT Query Statement?
2. How To Create a Testing Table with Test Data?
3. How To Select All Columns of All Rows from a Table with a SELECT statement?
4. How To Select Some Specific Columns from a Table in a Query?
5. How To Select Some Specific Rows from a Table?
6. How To Add More Data to the Testing Table?
7. How To Sort the Query Output with ORDER BY Clauses?
8. Can the Query Output Be Sorted by Multiple Columns?
9. How To Sort Query Output in Descending Order?
10. How To Count Rows with the COUNT(*) Function?
11. Can SELECT Statements Be Used on Views?
12. How To Filter Out Duplications in the Returning Rows?
13. What Are Group Functions in Query Statements?
14. How To Use Group Functions in the SELECT Clause?
15. Can Group Functions Be Mixed with Non-group Selection Fields?
16. How To Divide Query Output into Multiple Groups with the GROUP BY Clause?
17. How To Apply Filtering Criteria at Group Level with The HAVING Clause?
18. How To Count Duplicated Values in a Column?
19. Can Multiple Columns Be Used in GROUP BY?
20. Can Group Functions Be Used in the ORDER BY Clause?