The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd’s paper, “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks“, published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970. His colleagues at IBM ...

The most popular database products today, as reported by DB Engines rankings, are the relational databases Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Six of the top ten databases today are relational ...

Relational database-management systems (RDBMS) only model data as a set of tables and columns, carrying out complex joins and self-joins when the dataset becomes more inter-related.

But SQL wasn’t always the “universal” language for relational databases. From the beginning (circa 1980), SQL had certain strikes against it.

Conventional databases, meaning relational databases that use SQL (Structured Query Language) for queries, are the product of decades of technology evolution, good practice, and real-world stress ...

For technical clarification, databases come in two flavors: relational and non-relational. Relational (SQL) databases store data in tables with strictly-defined relationships between tables.

There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many NoSQL databases have added support for SQL-style queries.

The creators of relational database technologies seized upon SQL as the main way to access data stored in rows and columns, not because that was the only method available, but because SQL itself is so ...

How to Attach an SQL Database to a Web Page. Your Web page can display up-to-date information dynamically -- all the time. And you never have to edit the page again.

In “ The end of SQL and relational databases? (part 1 of 3) ” I covered some background on the SQL language and relational databases, the current and future for relational databases, the rise ...