When you want to work with a relational database in Python, or most any other programming language, it’s common to write database queries “by hand,” using the SQL syntax supported by most ...

SEE: Learn more about how Python became the hottest programming language. SQL SQL is the de facto standard programming language used by many of the most popular database servers worldwide.

Python could soon be the most popular programming language, battling it out for top spot with JavaScript, Java and C, depending on which language ranking you look at.

Anaconda, Inc., a Python data science platform provider, is partnering with Microsoft to embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server to deliver data insights in real time.

R and Python support, through external procedure support, are included in the product, just as in SQL Server. Spark and Java support are going to flow in as they are adopted in SQL Server.