Select All Users (No Limit)
Retrieve all columns from the users table without any row limit.
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.
The task
Retrieve all columns from the users table without any row limit.
A correct answer returns 150 rows with 10 columns: id, first_name, last_name, email, phone, city, country, created_at, status, is_premium.
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
| id | first_name | last_name | phone | city | country | created_at | status | is_premium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The first rows of each table are shown. See how all the tables relate on the database schema page.
Expected output
| id | first_name | last_name | phone | city | country | created_at | status | is_premium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
- Returning every column of a table with SELECT *
Hint and approach
Try the challenge first. Open these only when you need them.
Show the hint
Use SELECT * without a LIMIT clause
Show the step-by-step approach
How the model solution is built, in the order the database evaluates it:
- Read from the
userstable. - Return every column with
SELECT *.
Model solution
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What to watch for
- SELECT *. SELECT * is fine for exploring, but its output changes whenever a column is added to the table. Queries that feed a report should name their columns.
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