Fundamentals

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible YSQL interface to query data from the Northwind sample database using SELECT, FROM, ORDER BY, LIMIT and other basic clauses and operators. For detailed information concerning specific clauses or operators, please refer to the official PostgreSQL documentation.

To start, make sure you have all the necessary prerequisites and have logged into the YSQL shell.fetch

Note: These instructions last tested with YugabyteDB 1.3

Let's begin!