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<h1 id="language--page-root">SQL language<a class="headerlink" href="#language--page-root" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Trino is an ANSI SQL compliant query engine. This standard compliance allows
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with any underlying data source.</p>
<p>Trino validates and translates the received SQL statements into the necessary
operations on the connected data source.</p>
<p>This section provides a reference to the supported SQL data types and other
general characteristics of the SQL support of Trino.</p>
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