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.

In other attempts at ranking the popularity of programming languages, SQL was No. 12 in a list developed by LangPop.com last October. Meanwhile, Python garnered the "language of the year" prize in the ...

Programming languages are like standards; the nice thing about them is that there are so many to choose from. Selecting the best programming languages for back-end, server-side applications often has ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Used in combination with the newly open sourced code of the Java language extension, the Extensible Framework API provides an end-to-end example implementation of how a programming language extension ...

But SQL’s hold on data retrieval is slipping. New databases are emerging, and some speak entirely new languages. It’s not that SQL is becoming less popular.

It found that Python, Java, SQL and JavaScript appeared the most frequently in developer job ads, each appearing in more than 50,000 listings on Indeed. All four saw a significant jump in demand ...

Maybe it's not the sexiest programming language, but SQL continues to be important--at least according to one measurement.