Select Data
EasyUpdated: Sep 29, 2025
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Problem
DataFrame students
+-------------+--------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+--------+
| student_id | int |
| name | object |
| age | int |
+-------------+--------+
Write a solution to select the name and age of the student with student_id = 101.
The result format is in the following example.
Examples
**Example 1:
Input:
+------------+---------+-----+
| student_id | name | age |
+------------+---------+-----+
| 101 | Ulysses | 13 |
| 53 | William | 10 |
| 128 | Henry | 6 |
| 3 | Henry | 11 |
+------------+---------+-----+
Output:
+---------+-----+
| name | age |
+---------+-----+
| Ulysses | 13 |
+---------+-----+
Explanation:
Student Ulysses has student_id = 101, we select the name and age.
Solution
Method 1 - Simple Filtering
Intuition
We need to select the name and age of the student with a specific student_id. This is a simple filter operation.
Approach
- Filter the DataFrame (or table) for rows where student_id = 101.
- Select only the name and age columns.
Code
MySQL
SELECT name, age
FROM students
WHERE student_id = 101;
PostgreSQL
SELECT name, age
FROM students
WHERE student_id = 101;
Python (pandas)
# students is a pandas DataFrame
result = students.loc[students['student_id'] == 101, ['name', 'age']]
Complexity
- ⏰ Time complexity:
O(N)where N = number of students - 🧺 Space complexity:
O(1)(output is a single row)