SQL history Before there was SQL, databases had tight, navigational programming interfaces, and typically were designed around a network schema called the CODASYL data model. CODASYL (Committee on ...

Programming languages are developer community argots. To me, the lesser-known lexicon of Oracle’s PL/SQL has been a subject of study for quite some time. I love it. Far beyond its corporate ...

SQL, the structured query language, is a programming language for communicating with databases. Variations on SQL are used by some of the most popular database tools in the world, including some ...

You'll learn a maintenance strategy for database servers and even dive into management automation strategies, further bolstering your SQL know-how.

In this paper, the authors describe a custom relational algebra query software environment that enables database instructors to teach relational algebra programming. Instead of defining query ...

SQL is about as easy as it gets in the world of programming, and yet its learning curve is still steep enough to prevent many people from interacting with relational databases. Salesforce's AI ...

Microsoft-centric technologies are featured prominently in a new examination of the top in-demand programming skills published by careers site Dice.com. While Dice periodically publishes such posts ...

This year, the ministry of education introduced a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) subject at the HSC-level and made it compulsory for all students. The syllabus itself is excellent; ...

DuckDB is a tiny but powerful analytics database engine—a single, self-contained executable, which can run standalone or as a loadable library inside a host process. There’s very little you ...