Learning to use each individual API was challenging, joining outputs from several APIs even more so. In 2009 I was building a system to combine calendar information from many sources.

But the HCL + SQL combo reminds me of the early HTML + JS combo — in a good way! Here’s a peek at the sources behind one of the dashboard panels. Along with direct feedback, this kind of ...

There's no reference to either flavor of API, you just write SQL against Postgres tables that transiently store the results of implicit API calls. This isn’t just simpler, it’s also faster.

SQL queries for JSON data. The new API provides Oracle users with the ability to run MongoDB data applications on the Oracle Autonomous JSON database and the company’s Autonomous Database cloud ...

Fundamentally, an API is a language for communicating between computer programs, and a language like SQL or Java is a type of API. Full-blown computer languages tend to have more complex syntax ...

News. Microsoft Ships Data API Builder for Azure SQL Databases. By David Ramel; 05/15/2024; Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides ...