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3.3.4.1. Selecting All Data

The simplest form of SELECT retrieves everything from a table:

mysql> SELECT * FROM pet;+----------+--------+---------+------+------------+------------+| name     | owner  | species | sex  | birth      | death      |+----------+--------+---------+------+------------+------------+| Fluffy   | Harold | cat     | f    | 1993-02-04 | NULL       || Claws    | Gwen   | cat     | m    | 1994-03-17 | NULL       || Buffy    | Harold | dog     | f    | 1989-05-13 | NULL       || Fang     | Benny  | dog     | m    | 1990-08-27 | NULL       || Bowser   | Diane  | dog     | m    | 1979-08-31 | 1995-07-29 || Chirpy   | Gwen   | bird    | f    | 1998-09-11 | NULL       || Whistler | Gwen   | bird    | NULL | 1997-12-09 | NULL       || Slim     | Benny  | snake   | m    | 1996-04-29 | NULL       || Puffball | Diane  | hamster | f    | 1999-03-30 | NULL       |+----------+--------+---------+------+------------+------------+

This form of SELECT is useful if you want to review your entire table, for example, after you've just loaded it with your initial data set. For example, you may happen to think that the birth date for Bowser doesn't seem quite right. Consulting your original pedigree papers, you find that the correct birth year should be 1989, not 1979.

There are at least two ways to fix this: