Python could soon be the most popular programming language, battling it out for top spot with JavaScript, Java and C, depending on which language ranking you look at.

Just as open-source development revolutionized SQL, it also rejuvenated programming languages that work with data. Languages like Python and R, though dating back to the 1990s, are relatively new ...

When you want to work with a relational database in Python, or most any other programming language, it’s common to write database queries “by hand,” using the SQL syntax supported by most ...

SEE: Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward Dice's Q3 Tech Job Report also offered insight into the specific software platforms to have seen a growth in interest ...

While Python is IEEE's lead programming language, the spotlight is on SQL, which leads the organization's jobs rankings.

During the setup process, SQL Server 2017 can pull down and install its own edition of CPython 3.5, the stock Python interpreter available from the Python.org website.