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 ...

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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.

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...

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"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.

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