Benefits of SQL
Added 29 Jul 2008
SQL is both an easy-to-understand language and a comprehensive tool for managing data. Here are some of the major features of SQL and the market forces that have made it successful:
- Vendor independence
- Portability across computer systems
- SQL standards
- IBM endorsement and commitment (DB2)
- Microsoft commitment (SQL Server, ODBC, and ADO)
- Relational foundation
- High-level, English-like structure
- Interactive, ad hoc queries
- Programmatic database access
- Multiple views of data
- Complete database language
- Dynamic data definition
- Client/server architecture
- Enterprise application support
- Extensibility and object technology
- Internet database access
- Java integration (JDBC)
- Industry infrastructure