Structured Query Language - standard language for managing and querying relational databases. Like having a universal language for asking questions about organized data.
Data analysts use SQL commands like 'SELECT * FROM customers' to retrieve customer information from databases.
SQL is a vendor-neutral language standard (ANSI/ISO) used across many relational databases. Cloud providers don’t have an “SQL service” itself; instead, their managed database services (e.g., AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL Database, Google Cloud SQL/Spanner, OCI Autonomous Database) support SQL or SQL-like dialects to query and manage data.
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