The truth is that when you combine SQL with relational databases, you can map the data that you create—and how you manage that data—to many business practices in a way that is reliable ...

The Jakarta Persistence API provides two standard ways to pull records from a database using native SQL, Hibernate and JPA: Native SQL queries that return an object array. Native SQL queries that map ...

The ease and ubiquity of SQL have even led the creators of many “NoSQL” or non-relational data stores, such as Hadoop, to adopt subsets of SQL or come up with their own SQL-like query languages.