Sunday 27 October 2013

Transforming Schema into Programming

Till now we've been discussing the various concepts and qualities of a relational databases. These were the most efficient and most used databases now a days. Now we'll throw some light on the practical database examples.

In general, a database has a programming environment apart from the traditional File management systems. This was first developed by IBM corporation in the 20th century, and later was adapted by other companies too! This programming language used for creating, manipulating and accessing database is called Structured Query Language (SQL). This was a query type language, this means the commands we give to the database is in the form of a query, a structured command that runs with the database System. 


The various database systems available in the market are:

  • Oracle
  • My SQL
  • SQL Server
  • DB 2
  • MS access etc.,
The benefit of SQL is that its a universally accepted language for databases, this means that though the interfaces may change: all the database systems use the same language for the processing. Here our scope of learning is limited to oracle. After the completion of this, we'll move on to another database system: My SQL.

Coming to the History of Oracle, Its an American Software and Hardware Manufacturer co-Founded by its CEO Lary Ellison in 1977. It operates from California, USA. Its the 3rd Largest Corporation in the world in terms of its revenue. The First released product from it was Oracle 2, in 1979. From then, till now Oracle has been developing products for Database Systems. The Latest Product launched is Oracle 11g. Oracle has also won acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010. Now its the official owner of Java!



In SQL Programming, there are mainly 3 types of Language Commands. These are the major commands used in Creating, manipulating and accessing a database. They are:
  • DDL :    Data Definition Language
  • DML :   Data Manipulation Language
  • DCL :   Data Control Language

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