The SQL Programming Language

- Data is all around us. We used to store data on paper in big filing cabinets. But eventually we store them online in what we call databases. (bright ding) How do we easily pull the data we want to look at it? That's what SQL is for. It's a language that communicates with databases. (loud glitch music) Welcome back to Glitch. Your easy insights into Bob's big data and artificial intelligence. SQL stands for structured query language. People call it SQL or Sequel. In short, SQL is the name for a language that is used to communicate with databases. Databases that store your data. If you want to pull, edit, add information to a database, you can use the language of SQL to do that. But how does SQL work? Think of a database like a warehouse. Data tables like filing cabinets and data like files. This warehouse or database stores data. The warehouse database was built using coding languages