So what enables all this work to take place? One of the central elements is Structured Query Language, or SQL, which has just turned fifty years old. The original SQL paper was first published in ...

Although SQL will continue to be king of the hill for querying structured data, GQL is expected to be a better fit for queries combining data of different types and from different sources.

SQL, an acronym that stands for Structured Query Language, was first introduced in 1973. For the last 50 years, it has been the de facto standard for structured database queries.

After a change in title due to another company’s copyright on the word SEQUEL, Structured Query Language (SQL) was taken up by database companies like Oracle alongside their new-fangled ...