The SELECT keyword allows us to grab all information from a column (or columns) on a table. This, of course, necessarily mean that there will be redundancies. What if we only want to select each DISTINCT element? This is easy to accomplish in SQL. All we need to do is to add DISTINCT after SELECT. The syntax is as follows:

For example, to select all distinct stores in Table Store_Information,

Table Store_Information

we key in,

SELECT DISTINCT store_name FROM Store_Information

Result: