How Do You Use Structured Query Language (SQL)?
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a computer language for creating database and manipulating data. SQL is an ANSI (American National Standard Institute) standard and is supported by almost all Relational Data Base Management Systems (RDBMS) like Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, MS Access, PostGreSQL etc. SQL has two parts: • Data Definition Language (DDL): to create, alter, or drop tables and indexes. • Data Manipulation Language (DML): to insert, update, retrieve or delete the data in the tables. Here’s how to use SQL. • Install an RDBMS package. You can download MySQL from http://www.mysql.org for your operating system (OS) and install it using the given instructions. For Windows OS, it can be installed by double-clicking the installer and choosing the default values on each stage. • Start Mysql service. In command prompt window, change directory to C:\mysql\bin (if you have installed MySQL under C:) and issue following comman