diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 02d5fa6e..cc066d83 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ The Shakespeare Programming Language is a programming language created with the
 
 - [x] **SQL**
 
+SQL is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system.
+
 - [x] **Standard ML**
 
 Standard ML is a general-purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference; and a descendant of the ML programming language used in the Logic for Computable Functions theorem-proving project.