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In this video, we're going to be running our very

first SQL query! This query will be based on a common work task
that you might encounter as a security analyst. We're going to determine which
computer has been
assigned to a certain employee. Let's say we have access
to the employees table. The employees table
has five columns. Two of them, employee_id
and device_id, contain the
information that we need. We'll write a query
to this table that returns only those two
columns from the table. The two SQL keywords we need for basic SQL queries
are SELECT and FROM. SELECT indicates which
columns to return. FROM indicates which
table to query. The use of these keywords
in SQL is very similar to how we would use these
words in everyday language. For example, we can
ask a friend to select apples and bananas from the big box when going
out to buy fruit. This is already very
similar to SQL. So let's go ahead and use
SELECT and FROM in SQL to return the information
we need on employees and the
computers they use. We start off by typing
in the SQL statement. After FROM, we've identified that the information will be
pulled from the employees table. And after SELECT, employee_id
and device_id indicate the two columns we want to return from this table. Notice
how a comma separates the two columns that
we want to return. It's also worth
mentioning a couple of key aspects related to
the syntax of SQL here. Syntax refers to the
rules that determine what is correctly structured
in a computing language. In SQL, keywords are
not case-sensitive, so you could also write select
and from in lowercase, but we're placing them in
capital letters because it makes the query
easier to understand. Another aspect of this syntax is that semicolons are placed
at the end
of the statement. And now, we'll run the query
by pressing Enter. The output gives us
the information we need to match employees
to their computers. We just ran our very
first SQL query! Suppose you wanted to know what department
the employee using the computer is from, or their username, or the
office they work in. To do that, we can
use SQL to make another statement
that prints out all of the columns
from the table. We can do this by placing
an asterisk after SELECT. This is commonly referred
to as select all. Now, let's run this query to
the employees table in SQL. And now we have the full
table in the output. You just made it
through a basic query in SQL, congratulations! In the next video, we'll learn how
to add filters to our queries, so I'll
meet you there!

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