SQL can be very simple

There’s many ways to write a SQL statement, but the majority will have 3 key features:

SELECT

FROM

WHERE

Consider the Wikipedia article to the right with the world’s most spoken languages as our database.

What if we only wanted the languages with above 550 million speakers? (So the top 4 rows) Here’s how that SQL query would look:

SELECT *

FROM database_table

WHERE Total Speakers > 550,000,000