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 (or Structured Query Language) is a powerful programming language that is used for communicating with and extracting various data types from databases. A working knowledge of databases and SQL is ...

The original SQL paper was first published in May 1974 by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce and goes through a set of commands that can be used to work with data and provide those results back ...

In 2023, the IEEE noted that SQL was the most popular language for developers to know when it came to getting a job, due to how it could be combined with other programming languages.

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

SQL, the Structured Query Language, remains one of the most widely used programming languages, coming in fourth in Stack Overflow’s research for 2023. Just over half (51.52%) of professional ...