SQL stands for Structured Query Language, a language developed by Codd & Date in the woebegotten days of mainframes. Today it is used as the standard querying language for relational DBMSes (database management systems). Its first popular incarnation was IBM's DB2. Since then, it is incorporated with some proprietary code in such dbmses as: mySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Access, etc.. The language itself is simple to learn, consisting of few commands (select, update, delete, etc).
That being said: SQL can enhance any site that has heavy demands on data that can be stored in a database -- e-commerce, forums (this site uses mySQL & php), etc.
To use SQL, you need:
1) a relational DBMS;
2) server access
3) an intermediary language (php/asp/etc)
Hope this answers your question,
Vinny
Where the world once stood
the blades of grass cut me still
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Vincent Puglia posted this at 23:46 — 3rd October 2000.
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Hi nike_guy_man,
SQL stands for Structured Query Language, a language developed by Codd & Date in the woebegotten days of mainframes. Today it is used as the standard querying language for relational DBMSes (database management systems). Its first popular incarnation was IBM's DB2. Since then, it is incorporated with some proprietary code in such dbmses as: mySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Access, etc.. The language itself is simple to learn, consisting of few commands (select, update, delete, etc).
That being said: SQL can enhance any site that has heavy demands on data that can be stored in a database -- e-commerce, forums (this site uses mySQL & php), etc.
To use SQL, you need:
1) a relational DBMS;
2) server access
3) an intermediary language (php/asp/etc)
Hope this answers your question,
Vinny
Where the world once stood
the blades of grass cut me still
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