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Introducing SQL

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Introducing SQL

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- We're going to spend a little bit of time looking at SQL. Over the next several episodes we'll get an understanding for what SQL is as a language and how we use it in order to access and work with our databases. But I do want to warn you SQL can be rather large. For example, you can spend five or six hours just learning about the statements that are used to create tables and create different objects in the database. And then you could spend days learning everything there is to know about writing select statements to get data from databases. So it is a language with a large set of capabilities, but some of the basics can be understood very quickly. And that's what we'll focus on here. The first thing we're going to do is talk about a little bit of history for SQL. And one of the things you'll run into is that people often say it stands for Structured Query Language. Well, it is interesting because SQL defines far…

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