SQL (Structured Query Language)
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standard interactive and programming language for getting
information from and updating a database.
Although SQL is both an ANSI and an ISO standard,
many database products support SQL with proprietary extensions to the standard language. Queries
take the form of a command language that lets you select, insert, update, find out the location of
data, and so forth. There is also a programming interface.
This was last updated in September 2005
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