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Brief history and SQL flavors

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Brief history and SQL flavors

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- [Instructor] Let's talk briefly about how SQL came to be and how it's evolved into the various flavors we see today. The language has been around since the 1970s when it was created to handle the manipulation and retrieval of data stored in relational database management systems. Since then, we've developed standards for SQL, which are updated by the major standards boards roughly every three to five years. Vendors are constantly trying to outdo each other by adding new features on top of these universal standards. This is what creates these various flavors of SQL. Let's talk a little bit about those most common flavors that you'll see. You've got your Enterprise Solutions, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Then you've got some free solutions, MySQL, Postgre, and SQLite. The most important thing to remember about all of these languages is that these different flavors are much more similar than they are different. They're all built on the same universal standard, and the differences…

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