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SQL Introduction

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What is SQL?

SQL (Structured Query Language) is the standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

With SQL you can:

Query data from a database
Insert, update and delete records
Create and modify tables

SELECT name, email FROM users;

This selects the name and email columns from the users table.

The SELECT Statement