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Kinetica, a relational database provider for online analytical processing (OLAP) and real-time analytics, is harnessing the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to let developers use natural language processing ...

Is SQL a legitimate programming language? Your email has been sent Developers often dispute the merits of SQL as a legitimate programming language, but this misses the point. SQL is a powerful 4GL for ...

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As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward.

Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now Fifty years ago, relational databases were neither ubiquitous nor standardized.

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...