SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.

As promised in part one, I developed a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database (See Code Download for full source code and executable). The ...

SQL will give you what you need, regardless of the database structure. The way I like to say it is this: GraphQL permits flexible queries within the framework set by the developer who built the API.

In SQL Server, updates and inserts are processed initially into a B-tree table called a delta store. Eventually, a process called a tuple mover compresses the data into the columnstore structure.

We look at how to gain structure from unstructured data, via AI/ML analytics to create new records, selecting object data via SQL and storing unstructured files in NoSQL formats.

In addition, Azure SQL Database Edge supports representing data structures as graphs to create deeper relationships across entities.

Robert L. Leitheiser, Salvatore T. March, The Influence of Database Structure Representation on Database System Learning and Use, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Spring, ...