Chapter 3, Problem 3.10RQ

Program Plan Intro

SQL:

• SQL stands for “Structured Query Language”.
• The current version of SQL is “ANSI SQL – 92”.
• SQL is not a programming language. It is text-based and it is also called as data sublanguage.
  • In order to get SQL as a complete programming language, it should be included in scripting languages like Java, C#, and so on.
• It contains constructs which are used to define and process database. They are executed using DBMS-supplied command prompt.
• Some of the DBMS products provide GUI tools in order to perform tasks are as follows:
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle Database
  • MySQL

Table Creation:

Creating table comes under Data Definition Language (DDL). Syntax for creating table is as follows:

CREATE TABLE TABLE_NAME (

Column1 datatype,

Column2 datatype,

…

);