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Introduction to Transact-SQL

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Introduction to Transact-SQL

Structured Query Language or SQL is the common language that lies at the heart of not only Microsoft SQL Server, but every RDBMS that you're likely to use. Now, you've probably noticed the different pronunciation of this. Some people say "Sequel." Others say "S-Q-L." I tend to say S-Q-L when I talk about the original language itself and "Sequel" when it's combined as an SQL Server, T-SQL or MySQL. SQL the language has been around since the 70s. It's actually one of the few languages that I was writing 25 years ago and I'm still writing now. A lot of programming languages have come and gone, become fashionable and unfashionable, but SQL has stuck around and I still expect it to stay for a long time to come. Now SQL is a pretty small language and the key to learning it is to understand that it's a little different from other programming languages you might have come across, things like C, Java, or Python. SQL is what's called a declarative language whereas those others are what are…

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