Structured Query Language
Susan Sales Harkins, Martin W. P. Reid · Apress eBooks · 2002
Once upon a time, 64KB came in a piano crate, not on a small chip, and maintaining and manipulating data was expensive. Memory wasn’t the only problem: software was in its infancy, and simple tasks such as storing and indexing files required lots of support staff. As data grew, so did the need for better ways to maintain and manipulate that data. This need gave birth to the inexpensive hardware and efficient software we take for granted today.