Stay tuned for “The end of SQL databases – part 2” (of a 3 part series) where we will take a walk through some of the currently available open and closed source NoSQL databases.

Relational databases and the SQL language are still the architecture and lingua franca for the design, development and management of database applications.

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive Inside Azure SQL Database, Part 1 Microsoft promises 99.995 percent uptime for the Azure SQL platform, which is incredible.

In the second part of this series, Joey describes the methods that Microsoft uses to manage code rollouts, and how it detects hardware and software problems on Azure SQL.

Databases and languages that are used to communicate with databases, like SQL, can handle significantly more data than spreadsheets and manage the back-end of most modern-day web applications.