| English | German |
| interactive structured query language | Interactive SQL (An interactive command prompt utility provided with SQL Server that lets users run Transact-SQL statements or batches from a server or workstation and view the results that are returned) |
| language-integrated query | Language Integrated Query (A query syntax that defines a set of query operators that allow traversal, filter, and projection operations to be expressed in a direct, declarative way in any .NET-based programming language) |
| Structured Query Language | strukturierte Abfragesprache, Structured Query Language (A database query and programming language widely used for accessing, querying, updating, and managing data in relational database systems) |
| WMI Query Language | WMI-Abfragesprache, WMI Query Language (A subset of ANSI SQL with semantic changes adapted to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)) |