What is SQL Statement?

Question

SQL

I regularly come across such a term as statment in the code. Which seems to form the body of the request. I just can’t understand why the term statment is used and not request? It seems that SQL Request sounds much more logical? And in what an essence then SQL statment?

Answer 1

Statement is an expression. This is a neutral term, and request implies the presence of a response, this is not true for all sql expressions.