Abbreviation of tructured uery anguage , and pronounced either see-kwell or as separate letters. SQL is a standardized query language for requesting information from a database.

Structured Query Language: SQL is a standardized query language for used in database construction.

a group of "tables" each of which has a variable number of "rows" with a fixed number of "columns", each of which can be of any data type the database supports

A logical entity consisting of all tables, views, and other SQL objects in a DBEnvironment having the same owner.

a collection of named tables

a software environment that has to be installed on a server