Retrieving data out of a relational database is done mainly through the SELECT keyword in SQL.
Here is a great video to explain the SQL SELECT statement. Part One. Note that our version of SQL supports TOP 1 and not LIMIT.
Here is the link to SQL SELECT statement Part Two. Note that our version of SQL supports LIKE * and not LIKE %
If you do not have Ms Access you can use SQLBrowser with the older format. Here is the earthquake database in the older format mdb
Here is the earthquake database in the newer format accdb for Ms Access.