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Chapter 6 Introduction to SQL: Structured Query Language Objectives

What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?
The Structured Query Language (SQL) is the most popular query language used by major relational database management systems such as MySQL, ORACLE, SQL Server, etc. SQL is easy to learn as the statements comprise of descriptive English words and are not case sensitive. We can create and interact with a database using SQL in an eficient and easy way.
What will I learn in SQL?
But primarily, we will focus on learning all the standard SQL commands, their syntax, and how to use these commands to conduct analysis of the data within a relational database.
What can SQL do besides querying?
Although called a query language, SQL can do much more besides querying. SQL provides statements for defining the structure of the data, manipulating data in the database, declare constraints and retrieve data from the database in various ways, depending on our requirements.
Which programming language is used to access data from a database?
However, for database management systems there are special kind of programming languages called query language that can be used to access data from the database. The Structured Query Language (SQL) is the most popular query language used by major relational database management systems such as MySQL, ORACLE, SQL Server, etc.

What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?