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What Is SQL?

SQL is a database sub-language which you can use to define, manipulate and control data in your relational databases. As part of our ongoing commitment to protect our clients' investments in application software resources, CA Datacom/DB offers SQL support as a fully integrated part of CA Datacom/DB. We intend CA Datacom/DB SQL to provide support that offers a broad scope of facilities for the development of applications while minimizing the amount of effort required to port those applications from one DBMS to another.

SQL allows you to perform powerful relational functions such as projection, restriction, joining and union.

In performing tasks using SQL, you can draw on support provided by other DATACOM products such as CA Datacom Datadictionary and CA Dataquery.