SQL stands for Structured Query Language, which used as an international standard for database operations / manipulations. SQL was developed by IBM in the early 1970s. SQL was adopted as a standard by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1986 and the International Standards Organization (ISO) in 1987. As Note we can describe SQL as SQL stands for Structured Query Language SQL is an ANSI standard computer language SQL allows you to access a database SQL can execute queries against a database SQL can retrieve data from a database SQL can insert new records in a database SQL can delete records from a database SQL can update records in a database