I’ll focus on basic data manipulation queries and follow up with future articles about altering the database itself and more advanced query concepts if there is enough interest.

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.

For the past fifty years, SQL has helped us understand, manipulate and use our data to our advantage.

SQL includes a sub-language for defining schemas, the data definition language (DDL), along with a sub-language for modifying data, the data manipulation language (DML).