2. Basics of the SELECT Statement.
In a relational database, data is stored in tables. An example table would relate Social Security Number, Name, and Address:

Now, let's say you want to see the address of each employee. Use the SELECT statement, like so:
SELECT FirstName, LastName, Address, City, State
FROM EmployeeAddressTable
The following is the results of your query of the database:

To explain what you just did, you asked for the all of data in the EmployeeAddressTable, and specifically, you asked for the columns called FirstName, LastName, Address, City, and State. Note that column names and table names do not have spaces...they must be typed as one word. The general form for a SELECT statement, retrieving all of the rows in the table is:
SELECT ColumnName, ColumnName, ...
FROM TableName
To get all columns of a table without typing all column names, use:
SELECT * FROM TableName
Each database management system (DBMS) and database software has different methods for logging in to the database and entering SQL commands; see the local computer "guru" to help you get onto the system, so that you can use SQL.

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