In this blog, we will discuss the history of MySQL, what SQL is and how both works in terms of differentiation, i.e., what is the difference between SQL and MySQL.
History of MySQL:
MySQL was invented in 1995, the co-founder daughter Michael
Widenius’s “My” and acronym for Structured Query Language is SQL, and so the name invented as MySQL
MySQL is a relational database management system’s free and open-source software under the GNU.
General Public Licenses & is also feasible following various proprietary
- licenses.
- MySQL is free and effortlessly available
- It is ideal for large as well as small applications
- MySQL is a very reliable, fast scalable, & easy use, and simple platform; it’s also cross-platform.
- MySQL is submissive and compliant with ANSI SQL standard
- It’s distributed, developed, and supported by an Oracle Corporation
Database:
A database is an application that collects the standardized collection of records. It can be located and operated by the user quite easily. It enables us to arrange data into table formats, rows formats, columns formats, and indexes to quickly get relevant and wanted information. Each database includes a discrete API for executing database actions such as managing, creating, searching, and accessing its stores. Now, several databases are free like Sybase, Oracle, and the most famous is MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
We have seen the history and what MySQL is now. Let’s get to know about, How does MySQL Works?
| Large web applications | Like Facebook, Twitter, Booking.com, Airbnb, GitHub, Uber, YouTube, etc., using MySQL as a backend source language |
| Content Management Systems | Content Management Systems like Drupal, WordPress, Joomla!, Contao, etc. |
| web developers around the world | To build a website that shows data from a database, |
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We have discussed enough basic knowledge about MySQL, Now what is SQL and how its different from my SQL
Let’s begin,
- SQL is a standard language for collecting & storing, managing, manipulating, and fetching or retrieving databases.
- SQL is not a database system, although it is a query language.
- Assume you need to perform the queries of SQL language on the collected data in the database. You need to install any database management system in your machine or systems, such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, DB2, etc.
Now, SQL is extensively practiced in data science & analytics.
The primary use of SQL for data experts and SQL users is to update, insert, and delete the information or data from the respective relational database.
Here are the causes listed to explain why it is extensively used:
The primary use of SQL for data experts and SQL users is to update, insert, and delete the information or data from the respective relational database.
It also supports them in representing the structured data.
SQL enables the data experts also users to fetch the data from the relational database management systems.
Using SQL, we can manipulate available data within the database.
Also allows defining the data, including modifying that collected data in the relational database.
It also provides SQL users to set the authorities or reserves on table columns and stored views procedures.
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