SQL turns 50 this month -- why is it still going strong? [Q&A]

Data management language SQL (originally published as SEQUEL) first appeared in May 1974, so this month marks its 50th anniversary. We spoke to Peter Zaitsev, founder at Percona, to find out why SQL has survived for the last 50 years, and is still the third most used language for programmers and software developers according to Stack Overflow. BN: Why was SQL successful at the time, and why is it still used today? PZ: I think SQL was successful because it gave us a data language -- a set of tools that could be used to work with and manipulate data… [Continue Reading]