{"articles":{"query-language@databases":{"content":"<p>A query language is used to send queries to the database: these are requests to read data. The database handles the queries and retrieves, processes and returns the data in the way the query specified. Declarative: explain what instead of how(imperative). Database system decides how to retrieve the data. Most DQL are declarative.</p>","names":[[["Query language",""]]]}},"style":"Notion"}