The difference between SELECT * and SELECT A.* [closed] - sql

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I am new to SQL can someone help me understand why do we use Select .* in sql server ? And why is it different from just select * from table name
In some cases we use statements like select .*, firstname , lastname from employee. Just a bit confused.

.* means, select all columns of a table
SELECT A.*,B.Id from A,B select all columns of A and only Id column of B.

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Is a recursive CTE stmt valid without UNION ALL? [closed]

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Is the below recursive CTE statement, without a UNION ALL, syntactically valid? If it is should it return an error?
I have tried it on Mysql by adding the 'recursive' keyword after 'WITH' and it returns 3573 error. Informix on the other hand accepts the syntax but runs in a loop.
CREATE TABLE A(id int);
WITH T
AS (SELECT id FROM A, T)
SELECT id FROM T;

SQL update set and select issue, [closed]

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I have this code:
SELECT
ZONE_NAME,
ORG_ID,
ORG_SHORT_NAME,
XMSSN_USE
FROM TABLEZ
;
UPDATE TABLEZ
SET TABLEZ.BILL_CYCLE = '1-DEC-2020 4' WHERE (SELECT TABLEZ.XMSSN_USE WHERE TABLEZ.XMSSN_USE=224)
But it doesn't seem to execute. What could be the problem?
You have 2 different query sentences. You should use ; after first query and then write the update query.
Also you need to use some field on the where clause, your where is empty.

How to remove repeat rows in SQL? [closed]

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I need to remove repeated records in search result. I have 3 columns (id, worklevel & umobile).
It looks like below:
Red places is repeat but I need just one of them in result.
Try using DISTINCT
SELECT DISTINCT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name;

Remove rows with duplicate value for a column in SQL [closed]

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From the above table, I want to remove the rows that have the duplicate CODE column. Out of the duplicate rows, the row with the smallest ID_CHECK should be retained.
Output:
If I understand correctly, this should be your SQL query:
Select Names, Code, ID_CHECK
FROM
(
Select Names, Code, ID_CHECK,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(Partition by Name,Code Order By ID_CHECK) as rnk
FROM table
)tmp
WHERE tmp.rnk=1;
Let me know if this works.

Problems with SQL query finding three names with the most records [closed]

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I have a table and I want to display the 3 names (Ted, Ringo, Paul) that have the most records using an SQL query.
It's a primitive question, but please help me.
my table:
SELECT TOP 3 Name
FROM YourTable
GROUP BY Name
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC