What are the advantages of SQL …

SQL has many advantages which makes it popular and highly demanded. It is a reliable and efficient language used for communicating with the database. Some advantages of SQL are as follows:

1. Faster Query Processing – Large amount of data is retrieved quickly and efficiently. Operations like Insertion, deletion, manipulation of data is also done in almost no time.
2. No Coding Skills – For data retrieval, large number of lines of code is not required. All basic keywords such as SELECT, INSERT INTO, UPDATE, etc are used and also the syntactical rules are not complex in SQL, which makes it a user-friendly language.
3. Standardised Language – Due to documentation and long establishment over years, it provides a uniform platform worldwide to all its users.
4. Portable – It can be used in programs in PCs, server, laptops independent of any platform (Operating System, etc). Also, it can be embedded with other applications as per need/requirement/use.
5. Interactive Language – Easy to learn and understand, answers to complex queries can be received in seconds.
6. Multiple data views.