The SELECT command can be used to fetch one or more columns as output from MySQL table. An
example is given below to fetch one or more columns
mysql> Select * from Student; +------+---------+---------+-----------+ | Id | Name | Address | Subject | +------+---------+---------+-----------+ | 1 | Gaurav | Delhi | Computers | | 2 | Aarav | Mumbai | History | | 15 | Harshit | Delhi | Commerce | | 17 | Raman | Shimla | Computers | +------+---------+---------+-----------+ 4 rows in set (0.01 sec) mysql> Select Name,Subject from Student; +---------+-----------+ | Name | Subject | +---------+-----------+ | Gaurav | Computers | | Aarav | History | | Harshit | Commerce | | Raman | Computers | +---------+-----------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
The query above fetches two columns ‘Name’ and ‘subject’ from ‘Student’ table.
mysql> Select Address from Student; +---------+ | Address | +---------+ | Delhi | | Mumbai | | Delhi | | Shimla | +---------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
The query above fetches only one column ‘Address’ from ‘Student’ table.