Getting Started SQL stands for “structured query language”. It is the language used to communicate with a database. If you don’t know much about databases, I recommend reading the I Know Nothing About Databases article first. SQL has two pronunciations: you can either spell it out, “S-Q-L”, or you can say “sequel”, like a follow-up […]
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I Know Nothing About Databases
Overview Databases are rather simple. In this article, we will compare them to folders and files within a computer. To be more specific, we’ll talk about folders and Excel files. At a high level, the hierarchy from largest to smallest goes: server, database, schema, table, records/rows, values. A computer is setup similarly: computer/machine, folders, Excel […]