Most of the popular relational database management systems, such as MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle SQL, Microsoft SQL, and so on, use a type of declarative language called SQL (Structured Query Language) to interact with the database. SQL was initially developed by IBM engineers in the 1970s, but later on, it was further enhanced by Oracle Corporation and other emerging tech companies of that era.
Today, SQL has become a standard of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). SQL language has since been adopted by many different database systems and has become one of the most popular database languages in the modern era.
In this section, we will learn what some of the basic SQL commands you can use to interact with your MariaDB database are, specifically for obtaining, saving, modifying, and deleting your...