Glossary of Definitions
Here, you can find some of the most commonly used clauses in SQL.
Tuple
A singular row in a database consisting of a set of related data
*
Asking the query to return all columns of the queried tables
ALTER TABLE
Used when you want to add, delete or modify columns from an existing table
ADD
Denotes that you want to add column(s) to an existing table
DROP
Denotes that you want delete column(s) from an existing table
FROM
Used to designate the table that you want to select data from
INSERT INTO
Used to insert new records into a table
NULL
Denotes a field that has not been assigned a value
UPDATE
Modify data in an existing table
SELECT
Selects data from a database
SET
Used in conjunction with UPDATE to specify which columns we want to update
WHERE
Filters our table to return only the data that matches our required constraints