Microsoft-centric technologies are featured prominently in a new examination of the top in-demand programming skills published by careers site Dice.com.

Couple this with the concept of correlated-subqueries (the process of running a "child" query for each row in the "parent" resultset), and you can get pretty much anything you want with 'simple' SQL.

Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language.