STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE (SQL) is the language of the database. It's a stan- dard that defines how to manipulate almost every aspect of database, from creating the database and tables themselves to creating, reading, inserting, updating, and deleting data in the database. This standard is then implemented and extended differently by each database system vendor. The current version of the SQL standard is SQL-99. Most major database platforms now adhere fairly closely to this standard with a couple of exceptions. Microsoft Access, for example, has only recently (with Access XP) adopted the...

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