SQL and the Siring of Lord Byron
Not sure how many of you know this, but there is a link between the sql language and Lord Byron's sexual escapades. A friend at work asked me about a little about the SQL Server from Microsoft and the sql language, in context of Oracle's migration plans for their application suite in the Fusion project. My answer, which is a little convoluted, is below:
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"SQL database queries and SQL database? You could mean many things by that. In context, however, SQL server database is Microsoft's entry into the database market. It's not unlike Oracle or DB2 -- it just lacks the credibility, scalability and platform independence. That has never stopped Microsoft before. SQL database queries = queries to the Microsoft database. However, sql, or structured query language, is standard query language used to create, modify and retrieve data from relational and object-oriented databases. The language wasn't created by Microsoft, they just stole the name for their database in a deft marketing move. The other SQL you heard yesterday was PL/SQL, which is Procedural Language/Structured Query Language, and is Oracle's proprietary server extension to the standard SQL language. (Interesting tidbit -- PL/SQL emulates the Ada language, which was developed in the 70s, and is considered an equal to C/C++ and the language Java was developed from. Ada is named after Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, who is generally considered to be the first computer programmer, having programmed Charles Babbage's analytical engine -- the first computer. Ada was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron -- the dead poet guy. Ada was named after Byron's half sister, Augusta Leigh, with whom he had an incestuous relationship with, and fathered a child.) So, like I said, that question could have meant many things. ;-)"
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