We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

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.

The use of SQL to search for data Databases use their own type of programming language. This language is known as structured query language, or SQL.

All programmers need to learn SQL sooner or later: the SQL programming language is the backbone of most apps, businesses, and websites. Here's how to get started coding with SQL on the Mac ...

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

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

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 ...