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title: "Select Star SQL"
subtitle: "SQL Introduction follow-along"
description: "SQL Introduction follow-along"
title: "SQL basics learn-along"
subtitle: "Follow me as I explore Select Star SQL"
description: "Follow me as I explore Select Star SQL"
author:
- Marty Oehme
date: today
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Perhaps, for a future version it might be an interesting data cleaning experiment to actually change them to the same names before following the book.
A last caveat before we begin.
In the following chapters you will learn what they are described by and pick up a few extra functions and ideas along the way.
You will not learn anything beyond *querying* data (table creation, modification),
nothing about windowing nor any of the specific more common table expressions.
If you want to learn about those, there is a more reference-focused explanation available at [SQL Tutorial](https://www.sqltutorial.org/) which is a really nice next step when applying the mental maps passed along by the book this post is based on to new challenges and exploratory projects.
Finally and, without further ado, let's get started.
## Chapter 1 - Individual operations {#sec-individual}
For now, to test the database connection, we simply print three inmate names: