• SQL's Ranking: SQL reached its lowest position (12th) since 2001 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
• Market Share Shift: Increased use of [NoSQL databases] for AI applications is taking SQL's market share as SQL is more for structured data and NoSQL is better for unstructured data in the booming AI field.
• TIOBE Index Details: It shows programming language trends based on search engine volume.
• SQL's Decline: SQL's popularity has been declining since February, with 1.9% in May and 1.55% in June in TIOBE Software's proprietary points system.
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• NoSQL Advantage: NoSQL with data interchange formats like JSON and XML is less static than SQL.