Surreal DB - Query from Sets - surrealdb

Question

I have created an author user in surreal DB like this:
CREATE author:shivam SET
name.first = 'Shivam',
name.last = 'Sahil',
name.full = string::join(' ', name.first, name.last),
age = 23,
admin = true,
signup_at = time::now()
;
Now I want to query all the authors, but when I do:
SELECT * FROM author;
I get 0 results.
Is it supposed to be queried in some other way?

Answer 1

What you did should work well as you can see here
Don't forget to start your server with something like this for example
surreal start --log info --user root --pass root memory
and log-in as in my above screenshot with:
surreal sql --conn http://localhost:8000 --ns yoloswag --db compabie
Then, your create query and select should work well!
Alternatively, you can give a try to that video or documentation's quick start.
Creating another author like this is properly fetched afterwards.
CREATE author:123 SET
name.first = 'bob',
name.last = 'hoh',
name.full = string::join(' ', name.first, name.last),
age = 30,
admin = false,
signup_at = time::now()
;
Don't forget that 123 is supposed to be a unique ID (a string should be fine tho).