Quote:Uh? Duh. I thought you folks had good schools over there. :woot:

 

<b>SQL</b> (/ˈɛs kjuː ˈɛl/ or/ˈsiːkwəl/, Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).

Quote:SQL is database software.  It's what keeps all of the "information" regarding an application such as a message board.  That database knows your username, your password, keeps track of posts, post counts, etc.  It's also what tells the message board software which posts are "new" or which posts have been "un-read" for each unique user.  Essentially, it's kind of the "backbone" of a message board.

 

The message board software just presents the information to users such as yourself in a "pretty" way by getting the information from the SQL database.

 

Is that both geeky enough and in "idiot terms" enough for you to understand?

80% of what I talk about is nonesense.. the other 25% is made up statistics...