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Question about SQL!!
What i Can do with SQL?
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To read or manipulate everything stored in the database.
However I advice you to complete the course to have a better understanding. đ
https://www.sololearn.com/Course/SQL/?ref=app
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đ Iâve turned on notifications for this post, because I completed the course, but I donât know how to use it. đ I payed attention, but I just donât get it.
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@Jax - I'm guessing that when you say you "don't get it" you are probably saying this from a viewpoint of wanting to code programs.
SQL is a sort of programming language, but it isn't like the others, Python, C++, PHP, BASIC etc. in that you can build a program a user can interact with.
*SQL is all about _data_.*
I've slowly learnt (22 years and counting) that a program requires at least 2 elements: 1. a user interface, and 2. underlying data.
A database and SQL can provide a way for a _programmer_ (note: NOT the _user_) to create, store, modify, access and delete a program's underlying data easily, quickly, efficiently and in a way that will remain constant regardless of what programming language is being used to make the program.
Understanding databases and how to use SQL is a very good knowledge set to have even if you can't see it yet.
Edit: so my main points are that SQL makes it easy for a programmer to control a programs underlying data, and that the user interface of the program is not written in SQL, it will be written in something else, like C++ and the SQL calls will be made via C++ (or whatever language is being used).
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@Jax im toođđ
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Thanks
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just learn the syntax. everything else will come clear once u try to use it in a programming language.