Even if generative AI hides SQL behind the curtain, it will continue to play a critical role in how we interact with and use data.

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

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 ...

The widely used Structured Query Language is gaining new life as a standard data access method for Big Data.

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.