The
COBOL of the new century. It is a language that is easily learned
for producing reports on data - the same role as
COBOL.
There are several parts of SQL that preform different interactions with
the database:
- Data Definition Language (DDL)
- Creation and destruction of tables
- Creation and destruction of indexes
- Changes to the layout of the tables.
Data Manipulation Language (DML)
System Administration Language (SAL)
Query Language
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