SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

Software that turns SQL commands written within a source program into the appropriate function calls for the database management system (DBMS) being used. After the SQL precompiler stage, the ...

SQL statements that are added to a high-level programming language such as C or Python. In a preprocessing stage, the SQL code is converted into function calls, which may be optimized to provide the ...