CS-GY 6083: Principles of Database Systems
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  • Introduction
  • DBMS Basics
    • Introduction to DBMS
    • Why use a DBMS instead of a File System?
    • Levels of Abstraction
    • Instances and Schemas
  • Data Models
    • Introduction to Data Models
    • Database Languages
    • Database Design
  • DBMS Internals
    • Introduction to DBMS Internals
    • Storage Manager
    • Query Processor
    • Transaction Management
    • Database Users
    • Database Architecture
  • DBMS History
  • Some Popular Database Systems
  • OLTP, OLAP, and Data Mining
  • Databases vs. Information Retrieval
  • The Entity-Relationship Model - Details
    • Introduction
    • Cardinality Constraints
    • ER Diagram Components
    • ER Diagram to Relational Schema
    • Design Issues
  • The Relational Model - Details
    • Relations
    • Keys
    • Relational Query Languages
      • Relational Algebra
      • Relational Calculus
      • Relative Expressive Power
    • Relational Operators
  • SQL
    • Introduction to SQL
    • Domain Types in SQL
    • DDL Commands
      • Creating a Table
      • Alter and Drop
    • DML Commands
      • Basic Query Structure
      • Select
      • From
      • Where
      • Joins
      • Rename
      • String Operations
      • Ordering
      • Set Operations
      • Group By and Having
      • Nested Subqueries
      • Test for Empty Relations
      • Test for Duplicate Tuples
      • Derived Relations
      • With
      • Database Modification
    • Intermediate SQL
      • Joins Revisited
      • Views
      • Transactions
      • Integrity Constraints
      • More SQL Data Types and Schemas
        • Other Features
      • Authorization
    • Advanced SQL
      • Accessing SQL From a Programming Language
        • ODBC and JDBC
        • Embedded SQL
        • PHP
        • Some Security Issues
      • Accessing Metadata
      • Text Operations
        • Like
        • Contains
      • Cursors
      • Functions and Procedures
        • Procedural Constructs
        • External Language Routines
      • Triggers
      • Ranking
      • Windowing
      • OLAP
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The select clause is used to specify the attributes needed in the result of the query.

It corresponds to the projection operation in relational algebra.

select name from instructor

corresponds to Πname(instructor)\Pi _{name} (instructor)Πname​(instructor)

Unlike relational algebra, the select operation allows duplicates in the result. To remove duplicates, we must use the distinct keyword. To retain duplicates, we can use the all keyword.

The * symbol can be used to retrieve all attributes.

Arithmetic operations can also be used in the select clause.