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What is SQL?  Structured Query language (SQL) pronounced as "S-Q-L" or sometimes as "See-Quel"is actually the standard language for dealing with Relational Databases. SQL programming can be effectively used to insert, search, update, delete database records. That doesn't mean SQL cannot do things beyond that. In fact, it can do lot of things including, but not limited to, optimizing and maintenance of databases. Relational databases like MySQL Database, Oracle, Ms SQL server, Sybase, etc uses SQL! How to use sql syntaxes? SQL syntaxes used in these databases are almost similar, except the fact that some are using few different syntaxes and even proprietary SQL syntaxes.   Data Query or Retrieval Language [ DQL or DRL ] : This language supports to retrieve the data in different ways. It includes a cmd. called SELECT   Data Manipulation Language [ DML ] : Insertion of new rows, modifying the existing rows, removing unwanted rows collectivel...