SQL Exam Questions Practice Test part 2

A complete practice test to pass your Structured Query Language Exam part 2

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What You Will Learn!

SQL – the most popular Database Management System
Structured Query Language (SQL) for Data Science applications
how to perform database tasks in SQL
Understand the basics of databases, primary key, Foreign Key and Indexing
How to insert, update, and delete records from your database?

Description

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It is a programming language used to manage and manipulate relational databases. SQL is commonly used to insert, update, delete, and query data in databases. It is also used to create and modify database structures such as tables, indexes, and views. SQL is widely used in industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, and technology, among others.

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS). It is particularly useful in handling structured data, i.e. data incorporating relations among entities and variables.

SQL offers two main advantages over older read–write APIs such as ISAM or VSAM. Firstly, it introduced the concept of accessing many records with one single command. Secondly, it eliminates the need to specify how to reach a record, e.g. with or without an index.

Originally based upon relational algebra and tuple relational calculus, SQL consists of many types of statements,[6] which may be informally classed as sublanguages, commonly: a data query language (DQL), a data definition language (DDL), a data control language (DCL), and a data manipulation language (DML). The scope of SQL includes data query, data manipulation (insert, update and delete), data definition (schema creation and modification), and data access control. Although SQL is essentially a declarative language (4GL), it also includes procedural elements.

SQL was one of the first commercial languages to use Edgar F. Codd’s relational model. The model was described in his influential 1970 paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". Despite not entirely adhering to the relational model as described by Codd, it became the most widely used database language.

SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1986 and of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1987. Since then, the standard has been revised to include a larger set of features. Despite the existence of standards, most SQL code requires at least some changes before being ported to different database systems.