SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...

As an example, SQL was the first programming language to return multiple rows per single request. This makes it easier to get data on what is taking place within a set of data—and consequently ...

It's not so much a black and white, SQL vs. NoSQL situation, of course: TokBox still kept SQL databases around. That's where his team fed portions of Hadoop output for analysts to query more easily.

I’ve worked with SQL databases before, and at first I was annoyed at how the database was set up. (I would have done it differently.)Then again, in real life you often have to extract ...

SQL is about as easy as it gets in the world of programming, and yet its learning curve is still steep enough to prevent many people from interacting with relational databases. Salesforce's AI ...