SQL basics I: Data queries Whether you’re just getting in to programming or you’ve avoided learning SQL, it’s something every developer faces eventually.

If you include the field names, your code is self-documenting When a field name changes, you want to know with a query error, not later Asking for more than you need is just wasting resources ...

While Python is IEEE's lead programming language, the spotlight is on SQL, which leads the organization's jobs rankings.

In other attempts at ranking the popularity of programming languages, SQL was No. 12 in a list developed by LangPop.com last October. Meanwhile, Python garnered the "language of the year" prize in the ...