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# Getting Started with SQL

SQL (vapor/sql) is a library for building and serializing SQL queries in Swift. It has an extensible, protocol-based design and supports DQL, DML, and DDL.

Tip

If you use Fluent, you will usually not need to build SQL queries manually.

## Package

The SQL package is lightweight, pure Swift, and has no dependencies. This means it can be used as a SQL serialization framework any Swift project—even one not using Vapor.

To include it in your package, add the following to your `Package.swift` file.

    // swift-tools-version:4.0
    import PackageDescription

    let package = Package(
        name: "Project",
        dependencies: [
            ...
            .package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/sql.git", from: "1.0.0"),
        ],
        targets: [
          .target(name: "Project", dependencies: ["SQL", ... ])
        ]
    )

Use `import SQL` to access the APIs.

The rest of this guide will give you an overview of what is available in the SQL package. As always, feel free to visit the API docs for more in-depth information.