SQL can insert, modify and delete data in database tables. SQL can also modify the database structure by creating, changing and deleting tables and other database objects.

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.

We look at how to gain structure from unstructured data, via AI/ML analytics to create new records, selecting object data via SQL and storing unstructured files in NoSQL formats.

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 ...

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.