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

Couchbase announced a new language called N1QL that allows SQL queries over JSON data stored in its NoSQL document-oriented database.

Excel’s new Get Data preview improves Power Query with a modern layout, search, and OneLake catalog access in Version 2505.

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

New features for Query Analyzer under SQL Server 2000 Usability, customizability, and control * Current connection’s login, SPID, and server version appear in the query window’s status bar ...

SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data Your email has been sent Many people are confused by various JOIN operations supported by SQL. Learn to master the SQL command line with this ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the ...

For the past fifty years, SQL has helped us understand, manipulate and use our data to our advantage.

The ubiquitous SQL language works well when data is static but adds complexity in hybrid operational/online transaction processing scenarios, he said.

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.