---
title: "The Power of SQL"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-power-of-sql-exvosniuw
source_url: https://towardsdev.com/the-power-of-sql-ca8cbc32849a
type: article
source: "Towards Dev"
published: 2021-12-18T15:23:31.635Z
updated: 2021-12-18T15:23:31.635Z
tags: ["data-science", "python", "career", "r", "sql"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 10
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# The Power of SQL

**[Towards Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev)** · 4 min read · 10 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Structured Query Language or SQL was created by Edgard Codd in 1970 at IBM in order to deal with the large amounts of data that was coming to the world on a regular basis. It has been over 50 years since SQL has come to be and yet it still one of the most widely utilized programming languages today. A recent analysis from dataquest.io showed that out of 32,000 jobs that mention the key word ‘data’ in it, SQL is one of. the top programming languages to have as a skill set when applying to jobs.

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