1. A system for retrieving and presenting data from a relational database, comprising: the relational database; an input device for entering a database text query, where a first portion of the text query specifies the data to be retrieved and a second portion of the text query specifies a format for graphing the data; a device for executing the text query; a device for interpreting the text query, where said device is effective to format the data for presentation in graphical form; and an output device for presenting the data as a graphical image in accordance with said format; wherein the text query is formulated in a structured query language (SQL), wherein the graphical image is a representation of the data in ASCII format, wherein ASCII format is American Standard Code for Information Exchange, wherein said keywords are for a SQL data plotting extension and wherein said syntax recognizes said keywords for graphing the data and wherein the graphical image is one of a line graph, a horizontal bar chart, a vertical bar chart, a pie chart, a scatter plot, a contour plot, and a wafer map, in accordance with a keyword in the second portion of the text query.