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good drupal.org documentation is here: http://drupal.org/node/101496 getting a single value: use db_result

This sites Drupal 7 wiki page for creating Drupal 7 queries is here: http://www.barnettech.com/content/dbquery-drupal-7

$result=db_result(db_query('Select uid from {users} where uid = %d',5));

getting multiple rows: use db_query