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Introduction to SQL - MySQL Tutorial
From the course: MySQL Database Administration
Introduction to SQL
- [Instructor] Let's talk briefly about how SQL came to be 2 and how it's evolved into the various flavors we see today. 3 The language has been around since the 1970s 4 when it was created to handle the manipulation 5 and retrieval of data stored 6 in relational database management systems. 7 Since then, we've developed standards for SQL, 8 which are updated by the major standards boards, 9 roughly every three to five years. 10 Vendors are constantly trying to outdo each other 11 by adding new features on top of these universal standards. 12 This is what creates these various flavors of SQL. 13 Let's talk a little bit about those most common flavors 14 that you'll see. 15 You've got your Enterprise Solutions, Oracle 16 and Microsoft SQL Server. 17 Then you've got some free solutions, MySQL, 18 Postgres, and SQLite. 19 The most important thing to remember 20 about all of these languages 21 is that these different flavors 22…
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