Re: [Q] Oracle and SQL

From: Jason Salem <jasonds_at_computerland.net>
Date: 1996/09/12
Message-ID: <51a4cs$fu3_at_services.computerland.net>#1/1

chwu_at_unlgrad1.unl.edu (McGyver) wrote:

>What's the difference between Oracle and SQL?

>--

Oracle is a relational database management system that uses SQL as the language to interact with the data. Any data going in or out of the database, as well as such things as creating and dropping tables, indexing, etc are done with SQL statements. There are many other systems that support SQL in a similar sense (Informix, DB2, Sybase SQL Server, MS SQL Server, etc). All of these systems support different "flavors" of SQL though, much like different C Compilers support different "flavors" of C.

Now, if you are referring to MS SQL Server in the fashion that they teach in their classes (ie, MS SQL Server is referred to as "SQL") then that's a whole nother ball of wax. I'll avoid going into that, unless it turns out that it really was your original question.

HTH Jason Salem
Database Administrator
DATASTORM Technologies Inc/Quarterdeck Communications Division Received on Thu Sep 12 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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