Computers SQL

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  1. Zanza

    Zanza .Net-ing & PHP-ing~*
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    I just found out that I'll be studying SQL this course and I am very excited. But I've heard of MySQL more than SQL, what is the difference? Is MySQL is the new version of SQL?? Or something close to that..

    I just want to have an idea about what i'll be getting into.. :p
     
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  2. Suzu

    Suzu 7th Seat Shinigami

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    SQL = Structured Query Language (I hope someone comes and says I'm wrong lol!)

    I never played with mySQL, but I think it(mySQL) is similar to SQL in the way you create, add, manipulate, and destroy records in tables in Databases. :) It's an interesting subject.
     
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  3. BakaMattSu

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    Suzu got it right.

    SQL itself is a language used to communicate with a database. MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, and so on are various implementations of it.
     
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  4. Zanza

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    Are you sure it's a language? My instructor said that it is a tool rather than a language :p

    (Just checking how good are my uni's instructors..!)
     
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  7. Zanza

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    I pull someone's leg and I get two replies that has a quote by my with nothing else beside a link.. -_-;
    Thanks nontheless =]

    Well, maybe the instructor ment that he likes to think of them as tools? (to close this subject :p).
     
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  8. Zanza

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    Err, ok, I am kind of confused.. yesterday, in the lab session, the lecturer taugh us ORACLE SQL, he said that its ORACLE language using SQL tool.. is there much difference in SQL or ORACLE SQL??
     
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  9. MamiyaOtaru

    MamiyaOtaru President Bushman

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    You can use a lot of different languages to manipulate databases with SQL. This lets you run SQL queries from programs you write in those languages.

    What you are learning basically is how to write COBOL programs that use SQL to query and manipulate databases.

    Is SQL a language? Well, it's SQL after all, not SQT ;)
     
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