what is SQL?

Answer 1

structured query language
like a databse of information. more complex than that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

http://www.sql.org/

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SQL.html

Answer 2

Abbreviation of structured query language, and pronounced either see-kwell or as separate letters. SQL is a standardized query language for requesting information from a database. The original version called SEQUEL (structured English query language) was designed by an IBM research center in 1974 and 1975. SQL was first introduced as a commercial database system in 1979 by Oracle Corporation.

Historically, SQL has been the favorite query language for database management systems running on minicomputers and mainframes. Increasingly, however, SQL is being supported by PC database systems because it supports distributed databases (databases that are spread out over several computer systems). This enables several users on a local-area network to access the same database simultaneously.

Although there are different dialects of SQL, it is nevertheless the closest thing to a standard query language that currently exists. In 1986, ANSI approved a rudimentary version of SQL as the official standard, but most versions of SQL since then have included many extensions to the ANSI standard. In 1991, ANSI updated the standard. The new standard is known as SAG SQL.

Answer 3

SQL is a database language.
Structued query Language is called as SQL.
Ordinary database access or other files cannot be accessed by more than one user at a time. But SQL is working in the form of queries can be accessed more than one user. Hence for networking within certain computers or outside through Internet with many users is possible with SQL.

Answer 4

Structrued Query Language
SQL is a standardized query language for accessing information from a database. The original version called SEQUEL (structured English query language) was designed by an IBM research center in 1974 and 1975. SQL was first introduced as a commercial database system in 1979 by Oracle Corporation.

Answer 5

Structured Query Language

Answer 6

* SQL stands for Structured Query Language
* SQL allows you to access a database
* SQL is an ANSI standard computer language
* SQL can execute queries against a database
* SQL can retrieve data from a database
* SQL can insert new records in a database
* SQL can delete records from a database
* SQL can update records in a database
* SQL is easy to learn

Answer 7

SQL is a structured query language ,it is a database, where u submit queries(analogous to programming language syntax) to retrieve or insert info into a database.
the famous SQL distribution is Oracle SQL.

Answer 8

Structure Query Language! Its a programming language inw which algorithms are designed to basically solve queries.

Answer 9

Structured
Query
Language

its a "language" that allows you to extract data from a database

for example:

SELECT NAME FROM YAHOO..ANSWER.DATABASE
WHERE LNAME = "help me"

what this is saying is

give me the name of the yahoo user (from the YAHOO.USER.DATABASE) who's last name is "help me"

this is just a easy/small sample of what you can extract from a database using SQL

check out the below link for more details

dougc

Answer 10

search on web[best option]