The ease and ubiquity of SQL have even led the creators of many “NoSQL” or non-relational data stores, such as Hadoop, to adopt subsets of SQL or come up with their own SQL-like query languages.

Here’s an example using the SQL Server AdventureWorksDW2017 sample database: ... Notice that my data source is a SQL query that gets all rows for the EnglishDayNameOfWeek column from the DimDate table ...

SQL (Structured Query Language) has been with us for more than half a century and it’s not going away anytime soon. Popular in both traditional relational databases and newer NoSQL databases ...