Question at position 7 Which of the following questions is answered by the SQL statement? SELECT COUNT (Product_Description) FROM Product_T;How many characters are in the field name "Product_Description"?How many products are in the table Product_T?How many different columns named "Product_Description" are there in table Product_T?How many products have product descriptions in the Product Table?

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Question at position 7 Which of the following questions is answered by the SQL statement? SELECT COUNT (Product_Description) FROM Product_T;How many characters are in the field name "Product_Description"?How many products are in the table Product_T?How many different columns named "Product_Description" are there in table Product_T?How many products have product descriptions in the Product Table?

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Question recap: The prompt shows an SQL statement and a set of possible interpretations. The statement is: SELECT COUNT (Product_Description) FROM Product_T; The answer choices ask what this query answers.
Option A: 'How many characters are in the field name "Product_Description"?' This would require inspecting the schema metadata or using a function like LENGTH on the literal field name, not counting values in the column. The given query does not interact with metadata about the field name length, so this interpretation is incorrect.
Option B: 'How many products are in the table Product_T?' If you wanted the total number of rows (products), you would typically use SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Product_T;. Here, COUNT (Product_Description) counts only non-null entries in the Product_Description column, not all rows, so this option misinterprets the effect of counting a specific column versus all rows.
Option C: 'How many different columns named "Product_Description" are there in table Product_T?' This question concerns the number of columns with that name in the table. The query does not inspect the schema for multiple columns by that name; it operates on the data in a single column. Therefore this interpretation is incorrect.
Option D: 'How many products have product descriptions in the Product Table?' This aligns with how COUNT(column) works: it returns the number of non-null values in that column. Therefore, applying it to Product_Description yields the count of rows where the Product_Description field has a value (i.e., products with a description). Note that if a row has a NULL in Product_Description, it is not counted, which is a nuance worth understanding.
Putting it together, the query is evaluating the described column and returning the count of non-null descriptions, which corresponds to the number of products that have a description in the Product_T table.
Key takeaway: COUNT(column) tallies non-null entries in that column, not total rows, and not metadata about the column name or table structure.

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