how to display employee names starting with a and then b in sql

Question

i want to display the employee names which having names start with a and b ,it should be like list will display employees with \'a\' as a first letter and then the \'b\' as a

Answer 1

What cfengineers said, except it sounds like you will want to sort it as well.

select columns
  from table
 where (
         column like 'a%' 
      or column like 'b%' )
order by column

Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to check out some tutorials on SQL, it's pretty interesting.