As the article already mentioned, YQL is a SQL-like language to query structured data in the Web.

上文已经提到过，YQL是一种类似于SQL的语言，可在Web中查询结构化数据。

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To define the targets for entity extraction, a sophisticated SQL-like language is available, along with development tools.

要定义实体提取的目标，可以使用成熟的类似SQL的语言，以及开发工具。

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One of the advantages to BigQuery, which can analyze billions of lines of data from trillions of records in mere seconds, is that it is written in a simple SQL-like language.

BigQuery能够在短短几秒内从数以万亿的记录中分析上亿行数据，它的一个优势就是可以用类似SQL一样的简单语句写命令。

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