After a change in title due to another company’s copyright on the word SEQUEL, Structured Query Language (SQL) was taken up by database companies like Oracle alongside their new-fangled ...

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a programming language used to communicate with and manipulate databases. Learn its history and when to use it.

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

Although SQL will continue to be king of the hill for querying structured data, GQL is expected to be a better fit for queries combining data of different types and from different sources.