This example was constructed on SQL Server. It demonstrates a few points: control flow (IF/ELSE), control block (BEGIN/END), and Boolean operators (AND)—all elements of a programming language.

Java, one of the world’s most popular programming languages, was a natural choice for a SQL Server language extension since it is so widely used for enterprise applications. Embedding Java into SQL ...

As a general purpose, server-side language ... as it’s more a querying language than a programming language, SQL boasted more job postings than all the other languages on the list in both ...

SQL includes a sub-language for defining schemas ... in the real world you see lots of database-specific procedural server programming. That doesn’t quite take us back to the bad old days ...

Selecting the best programming languages for back-end, server-side applications often has more to do ... particularly in large enterprises with plenty of legacy systems, so we would add SQL to the ...

while leveraging the existing security and governance that the SQL Server programming language extensibility architecture provides." This evolved architecture will make it easier to upgrade the Java ...

Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language. The new tool joins similar ...

while leveraging the existing security and governance that the SQL Server programming language extensibility architecture provides." This evolved architecture will make it easier to upgrade the Java ...