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What is SQL?

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What is SQL?

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- Before we get into the demonstrations of SQL commands I'd like to talk a little bit about the SQL language in general. SQL is an acronym. It stands for Structured Query Language. It was originally called SEQUEL with a slightly different meaning. Some people still enunciate the acronym as SEQUEL and some people enunciate each individual letter, S-Q-L. They mean the same thing. SQL was first developed in1970 by IBM in conjunction with several projects for the US government and for many years it remained a government-only project. The first product available to the public that utilized the SQL language was in 1979 with Oracle version 2, and Oracle remains one of the premier database systems today. The majority of SQL commands focused on four basic verbs. The first one is SELECT, and SELECT is the tool we use to retrieve data from the database. Then we have UPDATE. UPDATE will modify one or more existing rows in the database. INSERT. INSERT creates one or more new rows in the database…

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