There are many graphical tools that have made the task of developing applications that use SQL easier. Most of these tools, however, are available in the high-end databases.
IBM developed SQL in 1970, which means it’s been around for over 45 years. Its original name was SEQUEL. SEQUEL stands for Structured English Query Language. It was developed by Donald D. Chamberlain and Raymond F. Boyce.
SQL is widely implemented by many companies in the industry and almost all major relational database management systems support SQL.
There are four sub-languages that make the SQL:
*Data Query Language (DQL) operations
*Data Definition Language (DDL)
*Data Control Language (DCL)
*Data Manipulation Language (DML)
SQL goes hand-in-hand with the relational model because the result of an SQL query is a table (also called, a result set). Thus, a new permanent table can be created in a relational database simply by storing the result set of a query.
SQL (Structured Query Language)