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About SQL Server 2005

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system produced by Microsoft that uses Transact-SQL as its primary query language. It is commonly used by businesses for small to medium sized databases. SQL is the universal language used for database management that allows users to retrieve, manipulate, and obtain summary data from one or more database tables through commands that define the database structure and control access.

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About SQL Server 2005

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system produced by Microsoft that uses Transact-SQL as its primary query language. It is commonly used by businesses for small to medium sized databases. SQL is the universal language used for database management that allows users to retrieve, manipulate, and obtain summary data from one or more database tables through commands that define the database structure and control access.

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ABOUT SQL SERVER 2005

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS)


produced by Microsoft. Its primary query language is Transact-SQL, an
implementation of the ANSI/ISO standard Structured Query Language (SQL)
used by both Microsoft and Sybase .It is commonly used by businesses for small-
to medium-sized databases.

A brief introduction to the SQL language is presented here. Standard query


language:
(SQL) is the universal language used for data base management. SQL
commands are specialized set of programming commands that enable

• Retrieval of data from one or more databases.


 Manipulate data in one or more tables by inserting, deleting, or updating
records.

 Obtain summary information about the data in the tables, such as maximum,
minimum, average values etc.

SQL is a declarative language i.e. we just need to specify what we want and not
how to do it. SQL statements can be basically divided into three types of
statements.

 DDL (data definition language) statements are used to define the database.
 DML (data manipulation language) statements are used to access the
database.
 DCL (data control language) statements are used to protect the database
from the unauthorized users, concurrent or multi-user transactions, power
failures etc.

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