Book Review: "Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours," by Ryan K. Stephens and Ron Plew, is an excellent primer for mastering the relational database model and all its intricacies.

Nearly 950 pages and more than 2″ thick, MySQL Cookbook is a book that every serious MySQL programmer should have on his/her shelf.

SQL history Before there was SQL, databases had tight, navigational programming interfaces, and typically were designed around a network schema called the CODASYL data model. CODASYL (Committee on ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer ...

This is not a book for someone unfamiliar with programming, but if you have a programming background, the book will get you thinking about web design (system design, not graphic design), as well as ...

So if you want a lucrative programming career (even the lowest paid SQL developers make upwards of $60,000 a year), it’s imperative that you learn a database programming language like SQL.