The SELECT Statement in Oracle


 

The SELECT statement is used to retrieve information from a database. Following the execution of a SELECT statement, a tabular result is held in a result table (called a result set). It allows you to select the table columns depending on a set of criteria.

SELECT statements might be as straightforward as selecting a few columns from a single table. They can also be complex, with several columns and criteria and multiple tables. In this article, I will introduce the basic SELECT statement fetching data from just one table.

SELECT Syntax:

The SELECT statement contains 4 Parts:

SELECT >> COLUMNS