This best-selling guide will get you up and running with SQL. Author Chris Fehily introduces general concepts, practical answers, and clear explanations of what the various SQL statements can do.

Developers often dispute the merits of SQL as a legitimate programming language, but this misses the point. SQL is a powerful 4GL for accessing data. Let’s face it: Bigotry within the ranks of the ...

Have you ever tried to find "a photo of the beach you went to with friends three years ago in the summer" from your ...

BlocklySQL is a block-based, visual programming tool like Scratch but for SQL. It is the outcome of academic research at the University of Würzburg on the kind of errors that students who are novice ...

When object-oriented programming languages began to be used in enterprise applications, designers had problems fitting the object-oriented model with the relational model. In the object-oriented model ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

SQL has faded in popularity as people working in the field of AI switch to NoSQL databases. Image: TechnologyAdvice The programming language SQL hit 12th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index ...

Some folks think that DBAs and application developers inhabit different universes. At times this may seem to be the case, but the successful DBA must understand application development and the issues ...

Database Programming with C# explains the essentials of database programming to those familiar already with C#. Learn to exploit the VS.NET IDE to access data, and more. There's no doubt C# is here to ...

Could you please explain the differences between a database engineer, a database architect and a database administrator? Great question! It can get pretty confusing as these titles (and many more ...