The content of this article might be a bit difficult for those with no programming experience.This is because, in my ...

In my last column (published in the February e-edition and the March print edition of DBTA), I reviewed the overall coding landscape for SQL Server with special focus on LINQ to SQL, a new technology ...

BlocklySQL is a block-based, visual programming tool like Scratch but for SQL. It is the outcome of academic research at the University of Würzburg on the kind of errors that students who are novice ...

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. Let’s face it: Bigotry within the ranks of the ...

When people who have just started learning programming or have just entered the IT industry ask me, "What should I study ...

Before we even begin this month's column I had better define what I mean by a "black box." Simply put, a black box is a database access program that sits in-between your application programs and the ...

Vilnius, Lithuania, June 4, 2026. – As AI transforms the demand for worker skills across the U.S., a new analysis, conducted by Oxylabs, a web intelligence company, shows what employers have actually ...

Tony Patton discusses the merits of stored procedures versus placing SQL directly in the code. Find out which one is best for your particular situation. I once was pulled into a discussion about the ...

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Initially created in the 1970s, ...

This is a new edition of Steven Feuerstein’s classic book on Oracle PL/SQL programming. As such it needs little or no introduction to the Oracle developer community; it would be unusual to find a ...