The weather table can be queried with normal relational selection and projection queries. A SQL SELECT statement is used to do this. The statement is divided into a target list (the part that lists the columns to be returned) and a qualification (the part that specifies any restrictions). For example, to retrieve all the rows of weather, type:
SELECT * FROM weather;and the output should be:
+--------------+---------+---------+------+------------+ |city | temp_lo | temp_hi | prcp | date | +--------------+---------+---------+------+------------+ |San Francisco | 46 | 50 | 0.25 | 1994-11-27 | +--------------+---------+---------+------+------------+ |San Francisco | 43 | 57 | 0 | 1994-11-29 | +--------------+---------+---------+------+------------+ |Hayward | 37 | 54 | | 1994-11-29 | +--------------+---------+---------+------+------------+You may specify any arbitrary expressions in the target list. For example, you can do:
SELECT city, (temp_hi+temp_lo)/2 AS temp_avg, date FROM weather;
Arbitrary Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT) are allowed in the qualification of any query. For example,
SELECT * FROM weather
WHERE city = 'San Francisco'
AND prcp > 0.0;
results in:
+--------------+---------+---------+------+------------+ |city | temp_lo | temp_hi | prcp | date | +--------------+---------+---------+------+------------+ |San Francisco | 46 | 50 | 0.25 | 1994-11-27 | +--------------+---------+---------+------+------------+
As a final note, you can specify that the results of a select can be returned in a sorted order or with duplicate rows removed.
SELECT DISTINCT city
FROM weather
ORDER BY city;