Structured query language (SQL) is now 50 years old. The original paper for SQL (then called SEQUEL) was published in May 1974 by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin, and provided a guide for data manipulation based on a set of simple commands. Today, we take SQL for granted around data – it is still the third most […]
What Is a Relational Database?
A relational database is a type of structure organizing data into groups through tables, that contain rows and columns. These tables connect by keys associated with each row in other tables. Data in any relational database can be added to, viewed, filtered, modified or deleted through a standard programming interface called structured query language (SQL). […]
Ways to Optimize your SQL Database
Click to learn more about author Chirag Thumar. Structured Query Language or SQL is considered the standard language for database management systems used to correspond with a database, either to update on or retrieve data from a database. The SQL is very simple to run and user-efficient, as the commands have a simple syntax. But then, the efficiency of the SQL […]