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SQLite SELECT Query

SQLite SELECTThe statement is used to retrieve data from an SQLite database table, which returns data in the form of a result table. These result tables are also known asresult sets.

Syntax

The following is the basic syntax of the SQLite SELECT statement.

SELECT column1, column2, columnN FROM table_name;

Here, column1, column2 ...is the field of the table, you want to get its value. If you want to get all available fields in this field, you can use the following syntax-

SELECT * FROM table_name;

Example

Consider the COMPANY table with the following records-

ID          NAME        AGE         ADDRESS     SALARY
----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
1           Paul        32          California  20000.0
2           Allen       25          Texas       15000.0
3           Teddy       23          Norway      20000.0
4           Mark        25          Rich-Mond   65000.0
5           David       27          Texas       85000.0
6           Kim         22          South-Hall  45000.0
7           James       24          Houston     10000.0

The following is an example of using the SELECT statement to retrieve and display all these records. Here, the first three commands are used to set the correct output format.

sqlite>.header on
sqlite>.mode column
sqlite> SELECT * FROM COMPANY;

Finally, you will get the following result.

ID          NAME        AGE         ADDRESS     SALARY
----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
1           Paul        32          California  20000.0
2           Allen       25          Texas       15000.0
3           Teddy       23          Norway      20000.0
4           Mark        25          Rich-Mond   65000.0
5           David       27          Texas       85000.0
6           Kim         22          South-Hall  45000.0
7           James       24          Houston     10000.0

If you only want to retrieve selected fields from the COMPANY table, use the following query-

sqlite> SELECT ID, NAME, SALARY FROM COMPANY;

The above query will produce the following result.

ID          NAME        AGE         ADDRESS     SALARY
----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
1           Paul        32          California  20000.0
2           Allen       25          Texas       15000.0
3           Teddy       23          Norway      20000.0
4           Mark        25          Rich-Mond   65000.0
5           David       27          Texas       85000.0
6           Kim         22          South-Hall  45000.0
7           James       24          Houston     10000.0

Set the output column width

Sometimes,.mode columnDue to the default width of the columns to be displayed, you may encounter issues related to truncated output. What you can do is, you can use the following.width num, num....The .width command sets the column width that can be displayed:

sqlite>.width 10, 20, 10
sqlite> SELECT * FROM COMPANY;

The above.widthThe command sets the width of the first column to10, the width of the second column is set to20, the width of the third column is set to10. Finally, the above SELECT statement will produce the following result.

ID          NAME                  AGE         ADDRESS     SALARY
----------  --------------------  ----------  ----------  ----------
1           Paul                  32          California  20000.0
2           Allen                 25          Texas       15000.0
3           Teddy                 23          Norway      20000.0
4           Mark                  25          Rich-Mond   65000.0
5           David                 27          Texas       85000.0
6           Kim                   22          South-Hall  45000.0
7           James                 24          Houston     10000.0

Schema information

Since all dot commands can be used under the SQLite prompt, when programming with SQLite, you will use the following SELECT statement and list all tables created in the database with the SQLite master table.

sqlite> SELECT tbl_name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type = 'table';

Assuming that your testDB.db only has the COMPANY table, the following result will be produced.

tbl_name----------COMPANY

You can list the complete information about the COMPANY table as follows:

sqlite> SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE type = 'table' AND tbl_name = 'COMPANY';

Assuming that your testDB.db only has the COMPANY table, the following result will be produced.

CREATE            TABLE            COMPANY(
   ID  INT  PRIMARY  KEY            NOT NULL,
   NAME                TEXT            NOT NULL,
   AGE                INT            NOT NULL,
   ADDRESS            CHAR(50),
   SALARY            REAL)