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Basic Data Retrieval

The SELECT statement is used to fetch data from a database. This query retrieves two specific columns: first_name and last_name from the employees table.

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SELECT first_name, last_name
FROM employees;
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SELECT first_name, last_name
Specifies the columns you want to retrieve.
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FROM employees;
Specifies the source table from which to fetch the data.