SELECT

Retrieve rows from the database

Summary Syntax:

   [WITH]
       SELECT [ALL|DISTINCT] [TOP n [PERCENT] [WITH TIES]] select_list [INTO new_table ]
          [FROM table_source ]
             [WHERE search_condition ]
                [GROUP BY group_by_expression ]
                   [HAVING search_condition ]
                      [ORDER BY expression [ASC|DESC] ]


Key
   select_list    One or more Columns from a Table, View or Alias:
                  table.*, table.column1, table2.column3, view4.* ...

   table_source   Table_or_view
                  Table_or_view [AS] table_alias
                  rowset_function [AS] table_alias
                  user_defined_function [AS] table_alias
                  OPENXML XML clause
                  table_source [INNER JOIN] table_source
                  table_source {LEFT | RIGHT | FULL} [OUTER] JOIN table_source

In addition to the above the UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT operators can be used to combine multiple queries into a single set of results, each query_spec must return the same number of columns:

query_spec UNION [ALL] query_spec  [...n ] ;
query_spec EXCEPT query_spec  [...n ] ] ;
query_spec INTERSECT query_spec  [...n ] ] ;

Examples

USE MyDatabase ;
GO
SELECT *
FROM MySchema.MyTable
ORDER BY MyColumn ASC ;
GO

SELECT MyColumn1, MyColumn2
FROM MySchema.MyTable;
GO

SELECT My_alias.*
FROM MySchema.MyTable My_alias;
GO

SELECT MyColumn1, AVG(MyColumn3) AS 'Average Price'
FROM MySchema.MyTable
WHERE MyColumn3 > 750
GROUP BY MyColumn1
ORDER BY MyColumn1 ;
GO

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of" - Burt Bacharach

Related commands:

INSERT
UPDATE
UNION
Equivalent Oracle command: SELECT