Structured query language (SQL) is a computer language designed for extracting and manipulating information from databases. It became popular in the 1970s and was standardized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1986. Companies such as Microsoft and Oracle have developed their own versions of SQL, and there is also an open-source version called MySQL.
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