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The SQL/NoSQL debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure, with which manufacturers are most familiar, or hitch our wagons to the NoSQL ...
But SQL’s hold on data retrieval is slipping. New databases are emerging, and some speak entirely new languages. It’s not that SQL is becoming less popular.
An SQL database might hold name, date of birth, address, etc, but analysing unstructured data – via making it semi-structured – can get closer to what consumers think.
SQL will give you what you need, regardless of the database structure. The way I like to say it is this: GraphQL permits flexible queries within the framework set by the developer who built the API.
We look at how to gain structure from unstructured data, via AI/ML analytics to create new records, selecting object data via SQL and storing unstructured files in NoSQL formats.
Robert L. Leitheiser, Salvatore T. March, The Influence of Database Structure Representation on Database System Learning and Use, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Spring, ...
As promised in part one, I developed a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database (See Code Download for full source code and executable). The ...