Abbreviation of tructured uery anguage , and pronounced either see-kwell or as separate letters. SQL is a standardized query language for requesting information from a database.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Structured Query Language: SQL is a standardized query language for used in database construction.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a group of "tables" each of which has a variable number of "rows" with a fixed number of "columns", each of which can be of any data type the database supports