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Databases SQL Basics Finding the Data You Want Searching Tables with 'WHERE'

Posted by Fairooz Adams
Fairooz Adams
2,704 Points

Can't get this to work!

PROMT:

In our e-commerce database we have a users table with the columns id, username, password, first_name and last_name. Write a SQL query that retrieves the first and last names only where the username is equal to "wig_lady".

WHAT I'VE DONE: SELECT first_name, last_name WHERE username = "wig_lady";

And it won't work.

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

You haven't specified the table you are selecting your records from. Try:

SELECT first_name, last_name FROM users WHERE username = "wig_lady";