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SQL โ€ข LESSON 42

WHERE with Text Conditions

How can we find employees belonging to a specific department?

Beginnerโฑ 2 Minutesโญ 550 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How can we find employees belonging to a specific department?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

Text filtering uses single quotes around string literals to match exact text values in WHERE clauses.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Department matching, status checking ('Active', 'Pending'), categorical filtering.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
SELECT name, department
FROM employees
WHERE department = 'Engineering';

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade SQL code for WHERE with Text Conditions.

  • โœ“ Text literals ('...')
  • โœ“ Equality filter (=)
  • โœ“ Categorical selection
  • โœ“ Clean syntax