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SQL

British

abbreviation

structured query language: a computer programming language used for database management

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She has even used it to generate ideas for portfolio projects demonstrating her ability to use SQL, an important programming language in data analytics.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023

“Basically it’s just a glorified SQL database,” he added, referring to a commonly used language for managing databases.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2022

But by this stage, thanks to Curry and Bjercke, she knew that a standard SQL server database was no basis for a genuine cryptocurrency.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2019

Over a period of at least five years, three US newswires were hacked using a variety of methods from SQL injections and phishing emails to data-stealing malware and illicitly acquired login credentials.

From The Verge • Aug. 22, 2018

The official name of the database language used by the old Pick Operating System, actually a sort of crufty, brain-damaged SQL with delusions of grandeur.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

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