SQL Server - SELECT Keyword

The SQL Server (Transact-SQL) SELECT keyword is used to select data from a database table and the selected data is returned in the form of a table.

Syntax

The syntax for using SELECT keyword in different scenarios in SQL Server (Transact-SQL) are given below:

/*select one column*/
SELECT column1 FROM table_name;

/*select multiple columns*/
SELECT column1, column2, ... 
FROM table_name;

/*select all columns of a table*/
SELECT * FROM table_name;

Example:

Consider a database table called Employee with the following records:

• To fetch Name and Salary data of the employees present in the Employee table, the query is:

  SELECT Name, Salary FROM Employee;
  

  
  

  This will produce the result as shown below:

  Name	Salary
  John	3000
  Marry	2750
  Jo	2800
  Kim	3100
  Ramesh	3000
  Huang	2800

• To fetch all fields of the Employee table, the query will be:

  SELECT * FROM Employee;
  

  
  

  This result of the following code will be:

  EmpID	Name	City	Age	Salary
  1	John	London	25	3000
  2	Marry	New York	24	2750
  3	Jo	Paris	27	2800
  4	Kim	Amsterdam	30	3100
  5	Ramesh	New Delhi	28	3000
  6	Huang	Beijing	28	2800