SQL, the Structured Query Language, remains one of the most widely used programming languages, coming in fourth in Stack Overflow’s research for 2023. Just over half (51.52%) of professional ...

In a variety of venues, the application of declarative programming practices and principles are starting to expand in ways that solve many long-standing frustrations with making technology work ...

So can SQL—“The data set should contain all the records that meet conditions A and B and C.” Declarative approaches to network automation take a lot of the burden of programming off network ...

A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, ... (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) to purpose-built databases (360 of them and counting).

Yes, someone from the SQL Server team must have had lunch with the Active Directory folks during Katmai development. That’s good news for us as SQL Server 2008 users.

With Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, engineers describe what their pipeline should do using SQL or Python, and Apache Spark handles the execution.

Abstract: A declarative program describes what computation should be performed, without specifying how. Logic and functional programs are examples of declarative programming. However, most people ...

Databricks Inc. today announced the general availability of Delta Live Tables, which it claims is the first extract/transfer/load or ETL framework to use a declarative approach to building data pipeli ...

You can force MariaDB to obey the standard—and reject double-quoted values—with the command SET sql_mode='ANSI_QUOTES'. Conclusion. It is not hard to interact with databases on the command line. In my ...