Select statement

To read one or multiple records from a table you use select statement.

select * from `user`;

+----+----------+-----------------------+--------------+---------------------+
| id | name     | email                 | password     | registered          |
+----+----------+-----------------------+--------------+---------------------+
|  1 | Silvia   | silvia@gmail.com      | silvia1990   | 2019-05-12 00:00:00 |
|  2 | Angel    | angel@springville.com | 1PzIjSWmj3   | 2020-02-07 00:00:00 |
|  3 | Carolina | carolina@studio.org   | funnybunny95 | 2020-06-12 00:00:00 |
|  4 | Michael  | michael@mail.com      | 84738257342  | 2020-09-24 00:00:00 |
+----+----------+-----------------------+--------------+---------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

The example above is the most simple data selection from a table. It return every row and every column. Instead of that, you can specify some particular columns to select:

select `name`, `email` from `user`;

+----------+-----------------------+
| name     | email                 |
+----------+-----------------------+
| Silvia   | silvia@gmail.com      |
| Angel    | angel@springville.com |
| Carolina | carolina@studio.org   |
| Michael  | michael@mail.com      |
+----------+-----------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now we select two columns only. However, we still select all rows available. To filter some particular rows you can use where statement:

select `name`, `email` from `user` where `id` = 1;

+--------+------------------+
| name   | email            |
+--------+------------------+
| Silvia | silvia@gmail.com |
+--------+------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Now only those rows are returned which match to the given condition.