For many companies, SQL standard conformity is an important consideration when choosing a relational database management system (RDMS), so why is this standard considered optional for database ...

Developers should be aware of the hazards of using nonstandard SQL commands such as those found in Oracle, Microsoft, and MySQL systems. Instead, you should use ANSI SQL, which is a ...

The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

A new beta of BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform’s data warehousing and analysis service, lets database administrators use standard SQL rather than a dialect of the relational database query language, ...

So there's a standing debate around our facility that MSSQL Server 2000 standard, can only handle 8 logical CPU's or cores. 8 Single cores, 4 dual cores, or 2 quad cores.. Anything else will go ...

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 ...

Several major database systems provide extensions to support the management and analysis of spatial data in a relational database system (IBM02, Ora01 and IBM01). The functionality is also ...

Google has rolled out a new beta of BigQuery, the data warehousing and analysis service available on Google Cloud Platform, which lets admins use standard SQL instead of one of its dialects.

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...