A Brief History of SQL
The history of SQL began in an IBM laboratory in San Jose, California, where SQL was developed in the late 1970s. The acronym SQL stands for Structured Query Language, and the language itself is often referred to as “sequel.” It was originally developed for IBM's DB2 product (a relational database management system, or RDBMS that can still be bought today for various platforms and environments). In fact, SQL makes an RDBMS possible. SQL is anonprocedural language, in contrast to the procedural or third-generation languages (3GLs) such as COBOL and C that had been created up to that time.
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Nonprocedural means what rather than how. For example, SQL describes what data to act upon rather than how to act upon the data. ...
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