We don’t always need all rows from the table as part of the final results set. You can use one (or more) of the comparison operators to filter the rows with a WHERE clause conditional. In this post, we are looking at the equality comparison operator (=)…
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Equality Comparison Operator
To check if any column value is equal to some other value, you use the equality comparison operator (=).
This will typically (but not always) be in the form of:
column_name = some_value
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