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SQL Commands – A Beginner’s Guide To SQL 

Data is essential for businesses to operate in the modern world, and the most effective way to store well-organized data collections is through a database. The widely recognized approach to organizing and retrieving information from a database is by using Structured Query Language (SQL). This language enables us to carry out all necessary CRUD operations within the database, including creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.

In this article, we’ll talk about everything related to SQL that every developer needs to know to manage data in a database well. 

What is SQL? 

Several online and mobile apps rely heavily on data. For instance, a user’s friends list and post history are stored in an application like Facebook. A database system keeps all of this information in one place. The SQL language allows developers to access and manipulate this data.

What is the Objective of SQL?

 The Structured Query Language (SQL) is a data management language used for a wide variety of tasks, including but not limited to the following: creating databases and tables, inserting, updating, and deleting data, retrieving data, running queries against databases, and more. SQL can also set permissions on database objects like tables, procedures, and views, create stored procedures, and execute queries against databases. 

Components of the SQL Language

SQL statements begin with a keyword or command, such as CREATE, and terminate with a semicolon. 

Additional SQL language components are as follows:

Keywords: Terms used to conduct database operations, such as ADD, JOIN, VIEW, etc. The following is a list of SQL keywords.

Identifiers: The names of database objects like tables, views, indexes, columns, etc.

Expressions: These are symbols or strings of characters that carry out mathematical operations on data.

Search conditions: Used to choose a subset of a table’s rows. You may also use IF statements to describe whether a condition is true or false in a particular row or set of rows.

Data types: The kind of data saved within each column when building a table, as the name implies. Examples include numbers, strings, dates and times, and so forth.

Nulls: A Null is used to describe an unknown or missing value.

Comments: Describes parts of SQL statements.

A list of commands for SQL 

For database work, you should know how to use a few SQL commands that are used often. When a programmer works with databases, they might write commands like:

●   CREATE DATABASE- This is the command to make a database.

●   CREATE TABLE is used to make tables.

●   SELECT is used to find and get information from a database.

●   UPDATE – make adjustments and edit data

●   DELETE – to delete some data

●   DROP is used to get rid of tables and databases.

●   INSERT INTO – to insert new data into a database

Conclusion 

If you’re in this field, you know that SQL, the original database language, still has “indispensable” status. Although SQL is essential for all software operations, it is necessary for analysts who need to make sense of raw data. In addition, SQL Developers handle every aspect of data import and database creation.

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