The mysqli_query() function is used to simplify the act of performing a query against the database represented by the link parameter. Functionally, using this function is identical to calling mysqli_real_query() followed either by mysqli_use_result() or mysqli_store_result() where query is the query string itself and resultmode is either the constant MYSQLI_USE_RESULT or MYSQLI_STORE_RESULT depending on the desired behavior. By default, if the resultmode is not provided MYSQLI_STORE_RESULT is used.