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.
up vote 38 down vote. 1  SQL: a language for talking to the database. It lets you select data, mutate and create database objects (like tables, views, etc.), change database settings. 2  PL-SQL: a procedural programming language (with embedded SQL) 3  T-SQL: (procedural) extensions for SQL used by SQL Server.