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title: SQL or Operator
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## SQL or Operator

You can use the `OR` operator in the `WHERE` clause of `SELECT` statement. You use it when you want to select a record that satisfies at least one of the conditions in your `OR` statement.

Here is an example that selects all records from the Person table who are either male or who have the name “Mary”:

```sql
SELECT Id, Name, DateOfBirth, Gender
FROM Person
WHERE Gender = “M” OR Name = “Mary”
```

You can combine others operators in the `WHERE` clause (use parenthesis to indicate the order of operations) like in this example:

```sql
SELECT Id, Name, DateOfBirth, Gender
FROM Person
WHERE Gender = “M” AND (Name = “Peter” OR Name = “John”)
```

This example selects all records where Gender is "M" and Name is "Peter" as well as where Gender is "M" and Name is "John".