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! colspan = "23" | Common Commands in SQL
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! Command* !! Syntax !! Description
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| `[table]` || || Syntax for indicating a table
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| USE [database] || || Selects database for manipulation and analysis
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| SELECT || || Selects columns from a database for analysis
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| FROM || || Denotes which table SELECT pulls the columns from (e.g. SELECT [col1],[col2] FROM `[table]`
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| WHERE || || Limits the available values SELECT can pull from each column based on a logical statement (e.g. WHERE [col1] < 10)
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| AS [var] || || Sets an output to a variable
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! colspan ="23" | Boolean Operators
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| colspan ="23" | AND
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| colspan ="23" | OR
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| colspan ="23" | NOT
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| CREATE TABLE `[table]` || Creates a table of the given name with the properly input variable (see below)
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| BIGINT || || 64-bit integer
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| INT || || 32-bit integer
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| UNSIGNED || || only allows positive integers or float values, always assigned after BIGINT or INT value
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| AUTO_INCREMENT || || Automatically adds +1 to an entry for a column for each successive entry
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| PRIMARY KEY || || Indicates which variable will differentiate each data entry
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| VARCHAR(#) || || Assigns a character array variable of length #
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| CHAR || || Assigns a character variable (allows ONLY 1 character)
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| DATE || || Assigns a date variable of the form 00-00-0000
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| AVG() || || Gives an average of the values in the indicated column
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| MAX() || || Gives the maximum of the values in the indicated column
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| MIN() || || Gives the minimum of the values in the indicated column
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| LIMIT # || || Limits to the top # number of entries (not necessarily by rank)
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| CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE `[table]` || || Creates a temporary table of the given name|-| INTO || INSERT INTO table_name<br />VALUES (value1,value2,value3,...);<br />INSERT INTO table_name (column1,column2,column3,...)<br />VALUES (value1,value2,value3,...); -- specifies the columns the values go into || Inserts new data entries into the specified columns
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