Chapter 10
Introduction to SQL
Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of the SQL database language. It covers the language’s history, as well as the software environments that provide an interface to database management systems. It concludes with a discussion of the elements of a SQL statement.
Keywords
SQL
SQL history
SQL conformance levels
SQL command processors
SQL1 is a database definition and database manipulation language that has been implemented by virtually every relational database management system (DBMS) intended for multiple users, partly because it has been accepted by ANSI (the American National Standards Institute) and ISO (International Standards Organization) as a standard query language for relational databases.
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