A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

Serverless database developer Fauna Inc. today released a query language inspired by TypeScript along with new web and local development capabilities and a declarative database schema. The company ...

A question asked about data contained in two or more tables in a relational database. The relational query must specify the tables required and what the condition is that links them; for example, ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now Fifty years ago, relational databases were neither ubiquitous nor standardized.

Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query ...

Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It’s had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

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Although most pundits agree that XML will become the standard for data storage and retrieval in the next decade, they can’t agree on how it will be implemented. Both theories are based on the ...