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Developers often dispute the merits of SQL as a legitimate programming language, but this misses the point. SQL is a powerful 4GL for accessing data.

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How to Insert Commas & Quotes in MySQL. Special characters require the MySQL escape character to indicate to the server that you want to insert the characters without executing any secondary code.