The SELECT Statement — Choosing Columns

How to select specific columns, rename them with aliases, and perform calculations using SELECT. ## Lesson objectives In this lesson, we will learn one of the most basic parts of SQL: the statement. In the previous lesson, we learned what SQL is and what database, table, row, column, and query mean. Now we will start learning how to select data from a table. The main goal of this lesson is to understand how to choose which columns we want to see from a table.