{{Title text: SELECT * FROM GHOSTS}}
[[Woman stumbles upon tablet, picks it up]]
Loaded table: People
Enter query
[[More people appear, woman is confused]]
[[Woman types in query]]
SELECT * FROM PEOPLE WHERE AGE > 30
[[People 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are highlighted]]
[[Woman types in a second query]]
SELECT * FROM PEOPLE WHERE ANUAL_INCOME > 100000
[[Person 4 is highlighted]]
[[Woman types in a third query]]
SELECT * FROM PEOPLE WHERE AFRAID_OF_FLYING = TRUE
[[People 2, 7, 9 and 10 are highlighted]]
[[Woman types in a fourth query query]]
SELECT * FROM PEOPLE WHERE HOURS_SINCE_WATCHING_PORN < 12
[[People 5, 7 and 10 are highlighted]]
[[Woman looking at tablet]]
Woman: Neat.
Woman: ...
[[Woman types in a final query]]
DROP TABLE PEOPLE
[[People vanish from scene, dropping what they were holding]]
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