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.

Like so many technology debates before it, the SQL/NoSQL debate may soon enter the realm of great technology disagreements as Mac versus PC, fieldbus versus Ethernet, and PC versus PLC-based control.

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 ...

This new debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure with which we are most familiar (read “Manufacturing Databases”) or hitch our wagons ...

Squirrel SQL client is a free open-source SQL client, written in JAVA that supports any JDBC-compliant database. It offers a range of features which include a database structure viewer, SQL query ...

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.