Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language.

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

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year.

If you know SQL, you can easily learn N1QL -- in fact, you're already more than halfway there." Couchbase exec Cihan Biyikoglu explained in a blog post that the company added the "SQL gene" to ...

However, rather than replacing SQL, these databases added their own SQL-like languages that replicated some of the methods and approaches that SQL has ingrained into how developers work.

Microsoft is working on new, scaled-down versions of its upcoming Visual Studio 2005 languages and SQL Server 2005 offerings for enthusiasts, hobbyists and the education market.

Microsoft last week announced that volume licensing downloads for SQL Server 2008 R2 are available in all languages, including the public availability of PowerPivot functionality. Customers can now ...