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Tony Rogerson wrote:
>>What level of ANSI 92 or didn't you know there are different levels? That >>is the version not the level. SS isn't completely ANSI 92 compliant at >>all >>levels. (no one is) >>Jim
The presence of a FIPS flagger does not indicate that the product itself is compliant with these levels - just that the product will tell you when you use a feature that is not compliant to one or more of the different levels. Oracle (and other databases) also have a FIPS flagger
> So, I guess let me rephrase the question - does Oracle have ENTRY,
> INTERMEDIATE and FULL compliance to FIPS 127-2 because I can only find
> references to ENTRY level.
Well - Core of 2003 actually - the levels you cite are for the earlier 92 standard. I will ask again - what level of ANSI 92 does SQL Server comply to ? And please provide a reference in the Doc, and not a paraphrase, as I suspect that you are not fully aware of what the different standards actually mean, or what compliance means, or even how compliance is measured.
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> But to reiterate the original point - a good database professional will,
> given a problem try and code it to FIPS 127-2 FULL (ANSI 92) and if it
> doesn't perform well enough will then look at vendor extensions. If you are
> writing an application that needs to run on SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 then
> you need to write portable SQL, that seems to be lost on HansF and probably
> DA too.
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OK - so lets expand this a little bit then. What compliance level does MS cite, and what other databases also have the same level of compliance, so that you can write portable SQL ? Received on Sun Feb 26 2006 - 14:04:55 CST