Python leads. C holds #2; C++ and Java dip as C# nears Java. Lower ranks shuffle — Perl returns, SQL at #10, and Go drops ...

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Some folks think that DBAs and application developers inhabit different universes. At times this may seem to be the case, but the successful DBA must understand application development and the issues ...

A new generation of graph databases has taken hold, and a generation of query languages has arrived alongside them. The assorted graph database query languages include the likes of Gremlin, Cypher, ...

Programming language and database skills topped the eFinancialCareers most-searched-for jobs list for the period of June through August 2012. Fixed Income Fixed-income expertise ranked second on the ...

Many computer programmers know multiple languages. The range of programming languages is wide, with some languages used in specific contexts, but some more general. For example, Java can implement ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A new year begins, and a new page opens for software development. Companies worldwide have ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

Late last year RedMonk analyst Steven O’Grady wrote a post titled “A Return to the General Purpose Database.” The idea was that the market, seeking something beyond “vanilla” relational databases, had ...

Social responsibility is the name of Steven Feuerstein’s game. Author of “Oracle PL/SQL Programming,” which has sold about 250,000 copies (a mind-boggling number for a technology how-to book), ...