Structured Query Language
Understanding SQL
● Serves as the standard language for managing, manipulating, and
communicating with database and extracting data from RELATIONAL
database.
● Has set of commands for various tasks such as querying, inserting, updating,
and deleting data.
● Operates through declarative syntax.
Trivia
● Original name was given by IBM as Structured English Query Language or
SEQueL.
Characteristics of SQL
● May be utilized by quite a number of users, which include people with very
little programming experience.
● Non-procedural language.
● Not time-consuming process.
● Does now no longer have a continuation individual.
● Uses functions to perform some formatting.
Uses of SQL
● Data definition
● Data retrieval
● Data manipulation
● Access control
● Data sharing