Developers often dispute the merits of SQL as a legitimate programming language, but this misses the point. SQL is a powerful 4GL for accessing data.

Maybe it's not the sexiest programming language, but SQL continues to be relevant. In fact, TIOBE Software, which publishes a TIOBE Programming Community Index gauging the popularity of programming ...

In 2018, it was pointed out to Jansen that SQL was Turing complete, and so should be listed as a programming language on the index. Because it was used so much in databases, SQL returned to the ...