Data Insider 6-3
Data Insider 6-3
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HULT DATA GLOBAL • ISSUE 6
S-Q-L or SEQUAL? It’s a common query when It's also simple to use!
talking about one of the most well known
and popular programming languages in the Either “select” data, “join” data, find out
World. But what is SQL and why is it so “where” data is, all with one-word
popular? programming. You tell the database what you
want, and SQL will be the middle-man in that
SQL was first developed in the 1970’s by a job for you.
group of researchers at IBM, most notably
Raymond Boyce, and was established with SQL is one of the most essential
the help of Frank Todd. Todd believed that programming languages needed by
all data should be "represented in the form of employers for a multitude of careers. This
relations", and that data should be easily ranges from a business analyst to a software
manipulative and retrievable. What do I mean engineer. We recommend anyone thinking
by relations? It is used to organise and about a career in analytics to find out the
structure data in systems where various bare necessities of the language (this is
relationships of data exist. This is more available in programme learning websites
frequently known as a relational database. such as DataCamp - let us know If you would
like access).
Most data scientists (or pirates) may ask why
we choose or use SQL; it is neither the fastest So to use SQL, you will be joining a vast
programming language, nor the most elegant population of individuals and teams that are
format when we analyse databases. Well, solving everyday problems with a simple
simply, SQL can be used to accomplish program - respect the programme and it will
almost everything that a data scientist or give you the results you are after.
analyst would need to do with a database.
With SQL, we can also add our own modified To conclude, I must say that I concur with the
extensions to apply to the system we are program designers; SQL is SEQUAL, not SQL.
using; common systems include Oracle,
Microsoft and Access.
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