http://www.scribd.com/people/view/632203-dtsirlis This a feed for documents on Scribd written by dtsirlis 30 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:23:17 GMT Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:23:17 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2606492/PPT-01 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Oracle SQL *SQL • SQL, pronounced ‘Sequel’ or simply S-Q-L, is a computer programming language that was developed especially for querying relational databases using a non-procedural approach. • The term non-procedural means that you can extract information by simply telling the system what information is needed without telling how to perform the data retrieval. *SQL • Extracting information from the database by using SQL is termed querying the database. • SQL is a language that is fairly simple to learn in terms of writing queries, but it has considerable complexity b Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:23:17 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2606492/PPT-01