SELECT from BBC Tutorial
name | region | area | population | gdp |
---|---|---|---|---|
Afghanistan | South Asia | 652225 | 26000000 | |
Albania | Europe | 28728 | 3200000 | 6656000000 |
Algeria | Middle East | 2400000 | 32900000 | 75012000000 |
Andorra | Europe | 468 | 64000 | |
... |
BBC Country Profiles
In this tutorial you will use the SELECT command on the table bbc:
Warming up
Read the notes about this table. Observe the result of running a simple SQL command.
SELECT name, region, population FROM bbc
SELECT name, region, population FROM bbc
Large Countries
How to use WHERE to filter records.
Show the name for the countries that have a population of at least 200 million. (200 million is 200000000, there are eight zeros)
SELECT name FROM bbc
WHERE population>250000000
SELECT name FROM bbc
WHERE population>200000000
Give the name and the per capita GDP for those countries with a population of at least 200 million.
per capita GDP is the GDP divided by the population GDP/population
SELECT name, gdp/population FROM bbc
WHERE population > 200000000
Show the name
and population
in millions for the countries of 'Middle East'
Divide the population by 1000000 to get population in millions.
SELECT name, population/1000000 FROM bbc
WHERE region='Middle East'
Show the name
and population
for 'France', 'Germany', 'Italy'
SELECT name, population FROM bbc
WHERE name IN ('France','Germany','Italy')
Identify the countries which have names including the word 'United'
SELECT name FROM bbc
WHERE name LIKE '%United%'
What Next
- You can to continue practicing the the same techniques
and gain more experience of the basic skills on the Nobel table.
The
WHERE
statement using thenobel
table. - You can learn about nested statements, these are instructive
and entertaining, but rarely useful.
Nested
SELECT
statements using thebbc
table.