Whereas an SQL API product allows you to embed SQL in the host language, some languages include SQL as a natural part of their statement set. IBM Informix Stored Procedure Language (SPL) uses SQL as a natural part of its statement set. You use an SQL API product to write application programs. You use SPL to write routines that are stored with a database and called from an application program.
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