Best Programming Language

I would like to have a MsQL database and would like to build a nice interface?what would u use to do the interface and which programming language would u use to do the access layer to teh Database?
I am a new programmer-)
It should not be a web-based application!

hardware? for example sensors that give positive or negative output? and also what database would be good to interface with this programming language.. this would be later made to prototype that would send an SMS with the information gathered from the sensors to numbers from the database. thank you