EasySQL challenge #6SELECT

Select Specific Columns from a Table

Return only first_name and last_name for every user instead of all ten columns.

The challenge runs on the SQLabHub practice database (SQLite) and uses the users table. You can solve it in the browser, with nothing to install.

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The task

Get first_name and last_name of all users.

A correct answer returns 150 rows with 2 columns: first_name, last_name.

Tables used in this challenge

`users` 150 rows

id INTEGER (PK) · first_name TEXT · last_name TEXT · email TEXT · phone TEXT · city TEXT · country TEXT · created_at TEXT · status TEXT · is_premium INTEGER

First 3 rows of the users table
id	first_name	last_name	email	phone	city	country	created_at	status
1	Jennifer	Torres	jennifer.torres57@icloud.com	+1-263-376-2371	Houston	Canada	2024-04-13	active
2	Donna	Adams	donna.adams52@gmail.com	+1-753-780-6670	Fort Worth	Canada	2020-09-15	inactive
3	Kenneth	Young	kenneth.young94@proton.me	+1-440-743-9503	Austin	USA	2023-09-05	active

The first rows of each table are shown. See how all the tables relate on the database schema page.

Expected output

Expected output of the challenge
first_name	last_name
Jennifer	Torres
Donna	Adams
Kenneth	Young
Michael	Carter
Robert	Campbell

First 5 of 150 rows. This is the output of the model solution on the practice database. The task does not fix a sort order, so your rows may come back in a different order.

What you practise

Choosing exactly which columns a query returns

Hint and approach

Try the challenge first. Open these only when you need them.

Show the hint

Select specific columns

Show the step-by-step approach

How the model solution is built, in the order the database evaluates it:

Read from the users table.
Return only the columns first_name and last_name.

Model solution

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What to watch for

Naming columns fixes their order in the result and keeps the query working if someone later adds a column to the table. SELECT * does neither.