The _______ is a simple query language used for accessing, handling and managing data in a relational database.

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The correct answer SQL.

Key Points

SQL stands for Structured Query Language.
It is a standardized programming language that's used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them.
SQL became the de facto standard programming language for relational databases after they emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
SQL is regularly used not only by database administrators but also by developers writing data integration scripts and data analysts looking to set up and run analytical queries.
The uses of SQL include modifying database table and index structures; adding, updating, and deleting rows of data; and retrieving subsets of information from within a database for transaction processing and analytics applications.

Additional Information

SQL is widely popular because it offers the following advantages -
- Allows users to access data in the relational database management systems.
- Allows users to describe the data.
- Allows users to define the data in a database and manipulate that data.
- Allows embedding within other languages using SQL modules, libraries & pre-compilers.
- Allows users to create and drop databases and tables.
- Allows users to create a view, stored procedure, functions in a database.
- Allows users to set permissions on tables, procedures, and views.