Many popular websites are backed by SQL databases, which they use to pull user-specific data and data responsive to particular user queries as people navigate their sites.

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

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

When a PROC SQL view is created from a Pass-Through query, the query's DBMS connection information is stored with the view. Therefore, when you reference the PROC SQL view in a SAS program, you ...

Simply put, SQL queries are used to instruct database servers to make changes to relational data (that is, create, modify, delete and read information stored in database tables).

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 ...

You can use SQL to create, modify, search, and display database information. Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements.

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a programming language used to communicate with and manipulate databases. Learn its history and when to use it.

Recursive SQL can be very elegant and efficient. However, because of the difficulty developers can have understanding recursion, it is sometimes thought of as 'too inefficient to use frequently.' But, ...

LibreOffice contains a very powerful database tool that is actually quite user friendly. Here's how to create a database query using the Design View tool.