Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  nose(Noun) The organ of the face used to breathe or smell. 2  nose(Noun) A snout, the nose of an animal. 3  nose(Noun) The tip of an object (e.g. the nose of a fighter plane).
SQL is a set-based, declarative query language, not an imperative language such as C or BASIC. However, there are extensions to Standard SQL which add procedural programming language functionality, such as control-of-flow constructs. Transact-SQL is one of those extensions.
Yes, SQL is a language. As the SQL acronym pronounces, it is a language. It offers looping, logic directives, variables, and so on. Now, itâs not a language in the same sense as, say, Java or C++: SQL is considered a fourth-generation language (4GL), whereas Java and C++ are third-generation languages (3GLs). Fourth-generation languages are programming languages that are closer to human language than high-level languages like Java. These 4GLs are often used to access databases, such as SQL, where humanlike syntax is used to retrieve and manipulate data. SQL may not be a language on par with Java or C#, but it is a language.