Manipulating Data in matlab using SQL

I have a question regarding manipulating data within MatLab. I'm very proficient with manipulating data in SQL, and I'm new to Matlab and would like to run some machine learning techniques. I'd appreciated any pointers to as how can I use SQL to manipulate data in Matlab, or is it even possible? I've work with SAS before and they had a proc SQL, wondering if matlab has an equivalent of that?