"Matthias Wirtz" <Matthias.Wirtz_at_epost.de> wrote in message
news:blqfi0$f5vmj$1_at_ID-151394.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Hi,
>
> are there any efforts to develop a standardized programming language for
> databases?
>
> I'm using PL/SQL a lot - it's a strong language. But only usefull for
Oracle
> databases. There are other languages for other databases. So for customer
> perspective it would be the best to have one language that can be used
with
> all databases. Similar to SQL.
> --
> Matthias Wirtz - Norfolk, USA
>
>
If you are talking about a standard stored procedure language there
currently isn't something that works with all databases or even most of
them. If you are talking about an API to a database there are several
standards.(jdbc, odbc, etc. all of which use SQL)
Jim
Received on Sun Oct 05 2003 - 20:19:19 CDT
