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Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

The transactions needed to store information in the database require Structured Query Language (SQL) commands placed inside a PHP script.