Whats the difference between MySQL and just SQL?

Jun 29th, 2009 | By KC | Category: My SQL Related

Ive schooled many of MySQL as well as PHP, is it identical during all?

Ethel the Frog June 29th, 2009 4:53 am
Simply different implementations of the same idea. Two big players in the server field – as the previous answer pointed out are the Open Source MySQL (I believe now partly owned by the Sage Group) and MSSQL which is Microsoft's licensed take on the subject.

SQL as a language has been around quite a while. It was possible to use native SQL syntax when querying the databases of older products such as the now demised DOS based FoxPro and DBx series of database languages rather than it's current form in which you install it lock stock and barrel on a web server and link to it with Perl, PHP or another language.