Question

What does the following SQL statement return? SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE EmployeeName LIKE 'a%'

a) Employees whose names start with 'a'
b) Employees whose names end with 'a'
c) Employees whose names contain 'a' anywhere
d) No employees will be returned

Answer 1

The SQL statement in question will return employees from the Employees table whose names start with the letter 'a'.

Step-by-step explanation:

The SQL statement SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE EmployeeName LIKE 'a%' will return a set of records from the Employees table. Specifically, it returns employees whose names start with 'a'. The LIKE operator in SQL is used to search for a specified pattern in a column, and when combined with the wildcard character '%', it matches any sequence of characters. In this case, because the 'a%' pattern is specified, SQL will search for any EmployeeName that begins with the letter 'a' followed by any number of characters.