9. A computer program product comprising a computer usable storage medium having computer usable program code for obtaining information from a relational database, said computer program product including: computer usable program code for querying the relational database to retrieve data therefrom in accordance with a text query from a user, 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, wherein the first portion of the text query and the second portion of the text query are formulated in a structured query language (SQL); computer usable program code for transmitting the text query to the relational database; computer usable program code for executing the text query; computer usable program code for returning the data from the relational database in accordance with the text query; computer usable program code for interpreting the text query in accordance with the structured query language (SQL) having keywords and syntax for specifying said format, wherein said keywords are for a SQL data plotting extension and wherein said syntax recognizes said keywords for graphing the data; and computer usable program code for presenting the data in accordance with said format, 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.
9. A computer program product comprising a computer usable storage medium having computer usable program code for obtaining information from a relational database, said computer program product including: computer usable program code for querying the relational database to retrieve data therefrom in accordance with a text query from a user, 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, wherein the first portion of the text query and the second portion of the text query are formulated in a structured query language (SQL); computer usable program code for transmitting the text query to the relational database; computer usable program code for executing the text query; computer usable program code for returning the data from the relational database in accordance with the text query; computer usable program code for interpreting the text query in accordance with the structured query language (SQL) having keywords and syntax for specifying said format, wherein said keywords are for a SQL data plotting extension and wherein said syntax recognizes said keywords for graphing the data; and computer usable program code for presenting the data in accordance with said format, 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. 12. A computer program product according to claim 9 , wherein said returning step further comprises: interpreting the first portion of the text query to cause the data to be retrieved; creating a dataset for the data; incorporating the data into the dataset; and constructing a graphical image using the data, in accordance with said format.