"Russ" <rgoring_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> I've recently noticed that the in-line view SQL syntax used by Oracle
> does not work in Sybase. Are in-line views an SQL extension only
> supported by Oracle, or have other DBMSs failed to implement the SQL
> standard?
As Joe Celko pointed out, an "inline view" is known as a derived table in
the SQL standard. However,
it is not a feature of the Core SQL (SQL-99) or Entry Level (SQL-92). Thus,
an implementation
need not support this feature in order to claim a minimal level of
conformance to the standard.
Received on Mon Dec 10 2001 - 14:48:16 CST
