An SQL statement looks something like this: "select customer_name, ship_date from orders where product_id=17 and state='CA'." There are two things to notice here. First, SQL has a simple, English ...

Microsoft revealed the official names Monday of the next major upgrades to its Visual Studio software development tools platform and its SQL Server database, which will be called, simply, Visual ...

Long Names and Case Sensitivity in the SQL Procedure and Pass-Through Facility Beginning in Version 7 of SAS software, SAS variable names and member names can be up to 32 characters long. Column names ...

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building ...

Microsoft announced on Oct. 30 that it expanded SQL Server passive use rights for organizations licensing SQL Server with Software Assurance (SA) coverage.

SQL strictly defines how to put queries together, making them easier to read and understand. If you are looking at someone else’s code, you should be able to understand what they want to achieve ...

SQL Server for Linux won't officially ship until mid-2017, but there's already a preview for corporations that want a peek. ... Microsoft's SQL database software now runs on Linux.

Whether users actually want to run SQL Server on Linux is another question entirely. Oracle's flagship database software is still far more popular than Microsoft's, and open source alternatives ...