SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...

In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on SEQUEL, a structured query ... models of working with and managing data at scale. However, rather than replacing SQL, these ...

Take, for example ... glut of unstructured data (bus schedules on PDFs, anyone?), Wanderu is powered by MongoDB, a "NoSQL" database—not by Structured Query Language (SQL) calls against ...

That capability is enhanced in SQL Server 2016, the first-ever version that lets developers query within JSON strings as if the ... some other form of an external endpoint that transmits data (for ...

A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they have to do is type in a question. The underlying language model ...

Unlike Azure SQL Database, Managed Instances are priced using a more traditional model. Users simply select ... sensitive to performance -- for example, an exchange trading system -- can still ...