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What is Microsoft SQL Server?

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...
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What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Initially created in the 1970s, ...
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SQL turns 50 this month -- why is it still going strong? [Q&A]

Data management language SQL (originally published as SEQUEL) first appeared in May 1974, so this month marks its 50th anniversary. We spoke to Peter Zaitsev, founder at Percona, to find out why SQL ...
PC Magazine

embedded SQL

SQL statements that are added to a high-level programming language such as C or Python. In a preprocessing stage, the SQL code is converted into function calls, which may be optimized to provide the ...
PC Magazine

SQL precompiler

Software that turns SQL commands written within a source program into the appropriate function calls for the database management system (DBMS) being used. After the SQL precompiler stage, the ...