T-Sql 101

In the first blog post of this introductory series for learning T-SQL, I talked about what SQL is. That then raises the obvious question, about what T-SQL is.

Well the promise of SQL was that we’d have one language, and it would work with all databases. Did that end up working? Well, sort of.

Committees, even the ANSI committees, are notoriously hard to make progress in. Everyone has no doubt heard the joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee.

2019-01-28

For some time, I’ve been thinking that I should create a series of blog posts about the T-SQL language, from a beginner’s perspective. For the next few months, my Monday posts will be intro-level T-SQL.

The obvious topic to start with then, is what is SQL in the first place?

When I started working with databases in the 1980’s, there were many, many different types of database. Each database had its own language that was used to get information back out of the database, or to put the information into the database in the first place.

2019-01-21