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.

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.

Maybe it's not the sexiest programming language, but SQL continues to be important--at least according to one measurement.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

A half-baked alternative to Transact-SQL will not make SQL Server or the development process any better and, very likely, will make things worse. As an administrator, I'm putting a lot of eggs into ...

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...