Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | software | font | number | display | web page | computer icon | website | parallel OCR: Netscape - [Database Language SQL] File Edit View Go Bookmarks Options Directory Help Back Forward Home Reload Images Open Print Find Stop Location: http://waltz.ncsl.nist.gov/~len/sql_info.html + What's New! What's Cool! Upgrades Net Search Net Directory Newsgroups Database Language SQL SQL is a popular relational database language first standardized in 1986 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Since then, it has been formally adopted as an International Standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It has also been adopted as a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for the U.S. federal government. Database Language SQL is under continual development by the above mentioned standardization bodies. The most recent published version was in 1992, a 580 page specification published by ANSI as American National Standard X3.135-1992 and by ISO/IEC as International Standard 9075:1992. The two specifications are word-for-word identical. Both versions are available in hard copy only from ANSI (Sales telephone: +1-212-642-4900). Further extensions and enhancements are under development (see SQL ENHANCEMENTS below). The 29 page FIPS SQL specification is published as FIPS PUB 127-2; it points to the ANSI specification by reference, presents four FIPS SQL conformance levels, and identifies additional FIPS SQL requirements for flagging extensions, for documentation of supported features, and for character set support. A PostScript copy of FIPS PUB 127-2 is available electronically by anonymous FTP TO
