Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

Fundamentally, an API is a language for communicating between computer programs, and a language like SQL or Java is a type of API. Full-blown computer languages tend to have more complex syntax ...

Looking at SQL today, it might seem to be clunky, and it is easy to make mistakes and lose valuable data if you do not know the language well and don’t check for mistakes.