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.

Maybe it's not the sexiest programming language, but SQL continues to be important--at least according to one measurement.

Learn the basics of Python, SQL and languages on your phone. Here are the top apps for aspiring coders and engineers.

"SQL Performance Tuning" will help the experienced SQL programmer make his or her code sing in terms of efficiency of code and optimization of data retrieval.

A half-baked alternative to Transact-SQL will not make SQL Server or the development process any better and, very likely, will make things worse. As an administrator, I'm putting a lot of eggs into ...

"This is the future," said St. Petersburg Republican Sen. Jeff Brandes, of his SB 104, which would put coding on par with a foreign language in a high school student's education.

In other attempts at ranking the popularity of programming languages, SQL was No. 12 in a list developed by LangPop.com last October. Meanwhile, Python garnered the "language of the year" prize in the ...