This section is organized around functional groupings of the components of the language with minor emphasis on binding styles.
Functional Family
SQL provides facilities for defining database objects, for defining user access to those objects, and for manipulating the data stored within them.
The following list describes the principal functional families of the SQL language.
- SQL Data Definition Language (DDL)
- SQL Data Control Language (DCL)
- SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML)
- Query and Workload Analysis Statements
- Help and Database Object Definition Tools
Classifications of SQL may group the data control language statements with the data definition language statements.
Binding Style
The ANSI/ISO SQL standards do not define the term binding style. The expression refers to a possible method by which an SQL statement can be invoked.
The database supports the following SQL binding styles:
- Direct, or interactive
- Embedded SQL
- Stored procedure
- SQL Call Level Interface (as ODBC)
- JDBC
The direct binding style is the default style and is therefore not qualified in this document. Embedded SQL and stored procedure binding styles are clearly specified, either explicitly or by context.
Related Information
For more information about:
- Embedded SQL, see Teradata® Preprocessor2 for Embedded SQL Programmer Guide, B035-2446 or SQL Stored Procedures and Embedded SQL.
- Stored procedures, see SQL Stored Procedures and Embedded SQL.
- ODBC, see ODBC Driver for Teradata® User Guide, B035-2526.
- JDBC, see Teradata JDBC Driver Reference, available at https://teradata-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/doc/connectivity/jdbc/reference/current/frameset.html.