The SELECT command is probably the most powerful and most often used SQL command. With it, DISTINCT, ORDER BY AS and LIKE can be used to fine-tune a query.
Practice and experiment with SELECT and its keywords and you'll soon find any result can easily be retrieved, sorted and displayed exactly as needed!
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