You mean, with NoSQL being the new hotness?<p>No, SQL is not the new COBOL. COBOL was superceded by languages that do the same things better, and then some. COBOL has a huge amount of inertia and is never going away, but not because it's anyone's ideal language for any task.<p>SQL database systems are in a very different situation. They do many things better than any alternative. NoSQL systems may scale better, for some definition of "scale", and for some parts of some applications, but SQL databases do lots of useful things that are hard to obtain using any other technology.<p>NoSQL is like a tax shelter. It's a solution to a problem you wish you had, but do not actually have. You aren't rich enough to need a tax shelter. And unless the minimum viable product you created over the weekend is being used by 100 million users, all day every day, you don't need NoSQL.