Why the "Non" in "ExecuteNonQuery"?

Posted by Camilo Martin on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Camilo Martin
Published on 2010-05-14T12:26:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 12:34 UTC
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I know this is not a hell of an useful question but I can't help being bugged by it.

So,
Why said method (in *Command classes) is called
ExecuteNonQuery instead of ExecuteQuery?

Aren't those SQL statements we throw at DBs, queries?

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