Re: standard database programming language

Matthias Wirtz wrote:

>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
>
>
>

No and there never will be. All vendors are free to add extensions to any language: And they will.

BTW: What makes you think SQL is identical between vendors?

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