Basics of SQL for junior frontend developers

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a programming language that is used to manage and manipulate data stored in relational database management systems (RDBMS). As frontend developers we may have not much to do with Databases directly. But it’s still important to know and understand how they work — at least knowing some key words will help you working with your backend- or database-engineer colleagues. Without data, your application wouldn’t probably mean much. So, knowing SQL has many benefits. SQL allows users to create, modify, and delete databases, as well as access and manipulate the data stored within them. In this article, we’ll cover the basics of SQL, including the types of commands and clauses that can be used to query and manipulate data in a database. This article will provide a sneek peak for understanding how to work with SQL.

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Many people don’t know SQL (Structured Query Language) is turing complete, thus it is a full fledged programming languge. In fact, it is a standard programming language for managing and manipulating data held in relational database management systems (RDBMS)…