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Selecting Data

The SELECT statement is used for retrieving data from tables, for select specific data, often based on a criteria given in the WHERE clause.

Title	Description
SELECT	SQL statement used primarily for retrieving data from a MariaDB database.
Joins & Subqueries	Documentation on the JOIN, UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT clauses, and on subqueries.
LIMIT	Documentation of the LIMIT clause.
ORDER BY	Order the results returned from a resultset.
GROUP BY	Aggregate data in a SELECT statement with the GROUP BY clause.
Common Table Expressions	Common table expressions are temporary named result sets
SELECT WITH ROLLUP	Adds extra rows to the resultset that represent super-aggregate summaries
SELECT INTO OUTFILE	Write the resultset to a formatted file
SELECT INTO DUMPFILE	Write a binary string into file
FOR UPDATE	Acquires a lock on the rows
LOCK IN SHARE MODE	Acquires a write lock
Optimizer Hints	Optimizer hints There are some options available in SELECT to affect the ex...
PROCEDURE	The PROCEDURE Clause of the SELECT Statement.
HANDLER	Direct access to reading rows from the storage engine.
DUAL	Dummy table name

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