---
title: Select Basics
description: Build typed select queries with from, where, order, limit, and select.
---

# Select Basics

Start every query with `db.from(...)`.

```ts
const query = db
	.from("users")
	.where(({ users }) => users.id.gt(10, db.dialect))
	.orderBy(({ users }) => users.createdAt.desc())
	.limit(20)
	.offset(40)
	.select(({ users }) => ({
		id: users.id,
		email: users.email,
	}));
```

Execute or inspect:

```ts
const rows = await query.execute();
const compiled = query.compile();
```

## Core methods

- `from(source)`
- `where(predicate)`
- `orderBy(predicate)`
- `limit(number)`
- `offset(number)`
- `select(projection)`

## Repeated `where`

Multiple `.where(...)` calls are combined with SQL `and`.

```ts
db
	.from("users")
	.where(({ users }) => users.id.gt(10, db.dialect))
	.where(({ users }) => users.email.like("%@example.com", db.dialect));
```

## Typed source object

`from("users")` gives a projection callback object with one key (`users`).
Each column is an `Expr<...>` with the correct inferred type.

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