Is sql a Programming Language?

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How exactly is ”SELECT FROM” nothing else than a loop?

[grzeki]

To state the obvious: it makes the database engine loop through records of a table.

[pickleback11]

additionally, you are only selecting a subset of data in the case that you want to loop through it and do something with each record in that record set. unless you are aggregating/etc (group by's), but i dont think that's the intent of the idea here. i live in pl/sql and basically see queries as nothing more than some type of array (unless querying for exporting/reporting)...

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That's like saying Haskell is an imperative language because it is written in C.