Analytics Insight – Staff Writer
“Although there were precursors to the SQL language as early as the 1960s, relational databases didn’t hit the market until the 1980s. In 1979, Oracle became the first to incorporate an SQL language into its relational database construct. SQL does have its distracters who consider it to be too slow and lacks the eloquence of other programming languages. Despite its critics, SQL has become the standard language for querying and manipulating data stored in a relational database. SQL is a fourth-generation language, meaning it is a scripting language that does not require compiling to run. Like most fourth-generation languages, SQL requires an interpreter that translates rather than compiles code. Instead of being a programming language for building websites, apps, or software, SQL is a language that enables storing, retrieving, and manipulating data in databases.” (more)