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SQL

SQL is the most popular computer language used to create, modify and retrieve data from relational database management systems. The language has evolved beyond its original purpose to support object-relational database management systems. It is an ANSI/ISO standard.

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A seminal paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", by Dr. Edgar F. Codd, was published in June, 1970 in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal, Communications of the ACM. Codd's model became widely accepted as the definitive model for relational database management systems (RDBMS).


 

Computer language: A computer language is a language used by, or in association with, computers. Often, the term is used synonymously with programming language, but in general a computer language need not be a programming language....

Relational database management system: A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a database management system (DBMS) that is based on the relational model as introduced by Edgar F. Codd....

Object-relational database management system: REDIRECT Object-relational database...


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Introduction
History
SQL keywords
Database systems using SQL
Criticisms of SQL
Alternatives to SQL
External links
References
 
FR: Structured Query Language


 

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