Microsoft loves to tell us it loves Linux. And we know it has made its Azure cloud hospitable to open source operating systems and programming languages. But what about the database layer ...

Open Source Development Has Its Limits While the Apache Hive project is a noble effort, it takes years and deep engineering expertise to create a fully compliant, scalable, optimized SQL query engine.

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

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it's common for Microsoft to pull software ...

Powered by open source and SQL, MergeStat brings 'operational analytics' to software engineering teams everywhere.

Stephen Walli, the former Microsoft exec turned open-source proponent, is at it again.This time, the former Softie is making a case for why Microsoft should consider open-sourcing some of its ...

Yugabyte raises $48 million to advance adoption of its open source SQL database based on an extensible document archiecture.

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.

All programmers need to learn SQL sooner or later: the SQL programming language is the backbone of most apps, businesses, and websites. Here's how to get started coding with SQL on the Mac ...