Filtering Data

# The "world" test database is available on the page:
# https://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html
SELECT Name, Population
FROM country
WHERE Continent = 'Asia'


Name Population
Afghanistan 22,720,000
United Arab Emirates 2,441,000
Armenia 3,520,000
Azerbaijan 7,734,000
Bangladesh 129,155,000
Bahrain 617,000
Brunei 328,000
Bhutan 2,124,000
China 1,277,558,000
...

This statement retrieves two columns from the country table, but instead of returning all rows, only rows withContinent value of 'Asia' are returned.