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Josephine Bush
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Josephine Bush has over 10 years experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data systems using MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics.
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Understanding SQL

Structured Query Language, or SQL (pronounced see-quel), is the language that is used for querying and manipulating data and defining structures in databases. Initially developed at IBM in the early 1970s, SQL became an ANSI and ISO standard in 1986.

SQL is a powerful, yet simple language, and can do many things, such as execute queries, retrieve, insert, update, and delete data, create databases and tables, and much more.

These types of activities can be grouped into different subdivisions of SQL: Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML), and Data Control Language (DCL):

  • Use DDL commands to specify database schema:
  • CREATE: This is used to create a new database or objects in a database.
  • ALTER: This is used to alter a database or objects in a database.
  • DROP: This is used to delete a database or objects in a database.
  • TRUNCATE: This is...
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Josephine Bush

Josephine Bush has over 10 years experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data systems using MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics.
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