This blog provides a query language type overview.
The idea for this blog originated from some customers asking me questions. When working in a particular field, you often a dedicated vocabulary that makes sense to your peers. It often includes phrases and abbreviations because it’s efficient. It’s no different in the database world. Much of this language might make sense to DBA’s, but it might sound like “voodoo” to people not used to it. The overview below covers the basic types of query languages inside SQL. I hope it clarifies what they mean, how they’re used and how you should interpret them.
DDL (Data Definition Language)
A database schema is a visualization of information. It contains the data structure separated by tables structures, views and anything that contains structure …
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