What Does Transact-SQL (T-SQL) Mean?
Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is Microsoft’s proprietary version of ANSI SQL for its SQL Server relational database.
Structured Query language (SQL) is the most widely-used relational database query language, and its standardized version – designed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) – is known as ANSI SQL. However, most vendors also implemented proprietary SQL versions with added features.
Techopedia Explains Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
T-SQL fully supports ANSI SQL and augments the language with several features, e.g., Control-of-Flow language, local variables and enhancements to the UPDATE and DELETE statements.
Examples of control-of-flow language include the following:
