AND & OR

AND and OR join two or more conditions in a WHERE clause.

The AND operator displays a row if ALL conditions listed are true. The OR operator displays a row if ANY of the conditions listed are true.

Original Table (used in the examples)

Example

Use AND to display each person with the first name equal to "Tove", and the last name equal to "Svendson":

SELECT * FROM Persons
WHERE FirstName='Tove'
AND LastName='Svendson'

Result:

Example

Use OR to display each person with the first name equal to "Tove", or the last name equal to "Svendson":

SELECT * FROM Persons
WHERE firstname='Tove'
OR lastname='Svendson'

Result:

Example

You can also combine AND and OR (use parentheses to form complex expressions):

SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE
(FirstName='Tove' OR FirstName='Stephen')
AND LastName='Svendson'

Result:

BETWEEN ... AND

The BETWEEN ... AND operator selects an inclusive range of data between two values. These values can be numbers, text, or dates.

SELECT column_name FROM table_name
WHERE column_name
BETWEEN value1 AND value2

Original Table (used in the examples)

Example 1

To display the persons alphabetically between (and including) "Hansen" and "Pettersen", use the following SQL:

SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE LastName 
BETWEEN 'Hansen' AND 'Pettersen'

Result: