Better Security Comes to Standard Edition Since SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1, Microsoft has been adding numerous programmability and security features to the Standard Edition of the product.

This example was constructed on SQL Server. It demonstrates a few points: control flow (IF/ELSE), control block (BEGIN/END), and Boolean operators (AND)—all elements of a programming language.

And that, of course, starts with SQL. "For those who are just getting into tech and learning about key programming skills for the first time, SQL (a.k.a. Structured Query Language) has been around ...