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Understanding of SQL

IBM sequel (Structured English Query Language) language developed as part of the system R project at the IBM San Jose Research laboratory. Renamed as Structured Query Language (SQL)

A joint effort by ANSI (American National Standard Institute) and ISO (International organization of Standardization) has led to standard versions of SQL such as

  • SQL-86

  • SQL-89

  • SQL-92

  • SQL-1999

  • SQL-2003

SQL is used to manipulate the data in the database.

What is Database?

The database contains information about a particular enterprise.

It is a convenient and effective way to use the data.

It has a collection of interrelated data.

SQL helps to access, create, update, modify, and delete the data quickly from the database.

SQL is widely in use commercial language, considered as the primary reason for the success of a relational database (RDBMS- Relational Database Management System).

SQL is not Turing Machine equivalent language, which cannot solve all the problem, it needs to embed with other high-level languages (Eg. C, C++)