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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, SQL injection, Database Console Commands, XLeratorDB, Foreign key, Navicat, Cursor, Query optimizer, CUBRID, User-defined function, HSQLDB, View, Truviso, DbForge Studio for MySQL, Data Definition Language, MaxDB, SQL Problems Requiring Cursors, Query plan, Data Manipulation Language, Table, EnterpriseDB, SQuirreL SQL Client, Advantage Database Server, Check Constraint, SQL:2008, DbForge SQL Complete, Apatar, SQL:2003, Scriptella, Embedded SQL, DbForge Data Compare for Oracle, Windows Internal Database, Rollback, Call Level Interface, Cardinality, DbForge Schema Compare for Oracle, SQLPro SQL Client, Commit, SQL:1999, SQL-92, Declarative Referential Integrity, WQL, Meta-SQL, SQL/XML, SQL CLR, Devgems Data Modeler, SQL/PSM, Condition, PL/pgSQL, XSQL, Query optimization, Epictetus Database Client, Correlated subquery, Common table expressions, Data Control Language, Varchar, Hint, Standard Interchange Language, Pro*C, SQL/Schemata, SQL Access Group, Nested SQL, Serverproperty, SQL PL, SQL/MED, NVL, SQL/CLI, SQL/JRT, SQL/OLB, Alpha, Object-oriented SQL. Excerpt: SQL (officially, often; often referred to as Structured Query Language) is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS). Originally based upon relational algebra and tuple relational calculus, its scope includes data insert, query, update and delete, schema creation and modification, and data access control. SQL was one of the first commercial languages for Edgar F. Codd's relational model, as described in his influential 1970 paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks." Despite not adhering to the relational model as described by Codd, it became the most widely used database language. SQL was developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce in the ea...