SQL Cheatsheet - SELECT FROM WHERE clauses with examples

SQL Cheat sheet for beginners, SELECT clause, FROM clause, WHERE clause explained with examples.

 

 SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE clauses in SQL - Cheat sheet

Querying data using SELECT…FROM...WHERE clauses in SQL
Commands/Clauses	Examples
SELECT 👈 To view required data from one or more tables.   Syntax: SELECT parameters FROM tablename;   Parameters for SELECT: *, list of attributes, functions, arithmetic operations are the parameters for the command (clause) SELECT.	Parameters examples for SELECT clause Simple: SELECT * FROM student; Result: Displays all columns of all records of student table. List of attributes: SELECT name, phone FROM student; Result: Displays only name and phone of all students; Function: SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employee; Result: Displays the maximum of all salary values stored in employee table. Operations: SELECT Basic + HRA FROM employee; Result: Displays the sum of the values stored in Basic and HRA columns (attributes) of all employee records.
FROM 👈 To specify the name of the table/view from which we want to view the data.   Syntax: SELECT parameters FROM tablename; Parameters for FROM: Table name or table names separated with comma.	Parameters examples for FROM clause Single table: SELECT * FROM employee; Result: Displays all records from employee table. Multiple tables: SELECT * FROM employee, dept; Result: It is a special case. It performs join. Displays columns of tables, employee and dept with every record of table employee combined with every record of dept.
WHERE 👈 To specify one or more conditions to filter the data to view/get required data only.   Syntax: SELECT parameters FROM tablename WHERE condition;   Parameters for WHERE: WHERE clause accepts the conditions (predicates) of the following format; Attribute_name OP value; Attribute_name OP attribute_name; Here, OP refers to OPERATOR that can be one of =, <>, >, <, >=, and <=   More conditions can be mentioned in WHERE clause. In that case, the conditions should be connected using logical connectives AND, OR, NOT.	Parameter examples for WHERE clause attribute_name OP value: SELECT * FROM employee WHERE gender = ‘male’; Result: Displays all records of employee who are MALE.   SELECT * FROM employee WHERE salary > 10000; Result: Displays all records of employees who earn more than 10000.   SELECT name, age FROM employee WHERE salary = 25000; Result: Displays only name and ages of all employees who earn 25000. attribute_name OP attribute_name: SELECT * FROM employee, dept WHERE emp_dno = dept_dno;

 

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SQL Cheat sheet - order of execution of SELECT statement in SQL

What is the order of execution of various clauses or parts of SQL SELECT statement? In what order a SELECT query is executed in SQL? Why SELECT clause is executed at the end in most of the SELECT statements? Order of execution of SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY and FETCH clauses

Order of execution in SQL SELECT query

 

SELECT query in SQL is the most used query to access the database. It has the following clauses (or parts) which can be found in most of the DBMSs like Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server etc.

• SELECT clause
• FROM clause
• WHERE clause
• GROUP BY clause
• HAVING clause
• Order By clause

 

SELECT query, when executed, follows certain order to fetch the records as result to the user. The table given below discusses about the order of execution of various clauses of SELECT query.

Order of execution	Clause	Description	Presence
1	FROM	SELECT query identifies the records in one (or more tables) as per the conditions (if any) and displays the result to the user. Hence, the first task is to identify the base table from which the record to be fetched.	Must
1a	JOIN	JOIN is a binary operator to combine rows from two tables and it is a part of FROM clause if used in the query. Hence, it is in position 2 in the order of execution. JOIN can be used in the FROM clause of a query as INNER JOIN, NATURAL JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, FULL JOIN, CARTESIAN JOIN (‘,’ (comma) between table names is used as the symbol for CARTESIAN JOIN).	Optional
2	WHERE	Once you have chosen the base table(s), now it is the time to mention the filtering constraints (conditions). If your query has any, it is mentioned in the WHERE clause. After choosing records from base tables, we need to filter them based on certain values as per your requirement. Hence, after FROM (or JOIN) clause, WHERE clause will be executed next.	Optional
3	GROUP BY	If you like to group the result based on certain attributes and their values, GROUP BY clause has to be used. It is a way to specify ‘HOW’ I want to see my data in the result. It executes after FROM (or JOIN, or WHERE) clause. You typically use a GROUP BY clause in conjunction with an aggregate expression (eg. AVG(), SUM(), etc.).
4	HAVING	HAVING clause is used along with GROUP BY clause in case if you like to apply conditions (filters) on grouped data. For example, assume that you have counted number of employees in each department (using COUNT(*) and ‘GROUP BY did’) and now you want to include that departments that have more than 5 employees. Here, we use HAVING clause.	Optional
5	SELECT	SELECT will take parameters (* OR list of columns OR functions OR arithmetic operations). As per the presence of parameters in the query, SELECT will pick and show necessary data from the results produced by the execution of previous clauses. For example, the SELECT clause in “SELECT sname, age FROM student WHERE gender = ‘F’;” takes two columns. SELECT will select and show only sname and age columns after the execution of FROM clause and WHERE clause are completed.	Must
6	ORDER BY	ORDER BY clause sorts (ascending or descending) the result data produced by SELECT query.	Optional
7	TOP / LIMIT / FETCH	They are used to limit the number of records to be displayed as a result. TOP is used by SQL Server, LIMIT is supported by MySQL, and Oracle (versions 12 or later) supports FETCH.	Optional

 

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What is the order of execution of various clauses or parts of SQL SELECT statement? 

In what order a SELECT query is executed in SQL? 

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In which order, the clauses in the following query executed? Why?

List and execute the SELECT query clauses execution order in detail.