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Learn Enough SQL To Get You The Job-SQL Basics For QA, Testing, Analyst Roles
SQL is good to know, no matter what your current job is. It is especially good to know if you are in the tech field or analysis field and are dealing with large amounts of data or information. But what is SQL besides just another cool buzzword that is thrown around in the tech field?
This article will go over:
- What is SQL
- Creating Data
- Viewing Data
- Changing Data
- Removing Data
There will be a future video on this on my Youtube channel “The Test Lead”
What is SQL?
SQL, which stands for Structured Query Language, is a way for us to communicate with a database and is the standard language for relational database management systems. Some of the common relational database management systems that SQL is used for include Microsoft SQL Server, Access, and Oracle. But what is a database? Think of a database as a large amount of data. This data is then categorized into groups or containers called tables.
Any company that you ever will work for with have databases and tables of some sort. This is why being able to access the information is so important. Information in the database can be as…