To this day, most manufacturers claim compliance with the SQL-92 standard, named for its release in 1992. However, the current standard is actually SQL-99.

Version 1.11 of BigQuery offers the ability to write optimized queries and sub-queries in any clause of a SQL statement, such as those using SELECT, FROM and WHERE, it said.

Google is abandoning its homegrown SQL variant as the recommended default query language for its BigQuery service in favor of a new standard-compliant dialect in the works for the managed data ...

This e-book is intended for IT and executive decision makers, database administrators, system administrators, and others who will be key stakeholders planning to modernize legacy Microsoft SQL ...

BigQuery’s revamped SQL dialect replaces the existing dialect as the default query language. The new default is is fully compliant with the 2011 SQL standard and supports extensions that support ...

Couchbase is introducing a new query language that unites legacy SQL to the modern NoSQL, providing what the company says is the best of both worlds for developers and the enterprise. With this new ...

For those legacy SQL Server 2008/R2 applications that remain critical, some form of high availability or disaster recovery protection will be required to preserve business continuity.

Last month, Oracle unveiled Big Data SQL, a tool that can run a SQL query against Oracle’s data store, as well as Hadoop and NoSQL stores. The software is an option for the Big Data Appliance.