Re: SQL1999-standard makes no reference to term "relational" - why?

Celko will probably know for sure, but my guess is that the SQL standard is a specification for a computer LANGUAGE, and that language is used to communicate with computers that contain "any data described by schemas that is under the control of an SQL-implementation in an SQL-environment." But, that's just a guess...

"Lauri Pietarinen" <lauri.pietarinen_at_atbusiness.com> wrote in message news:e9d83568.0207171304.6917b951_at_posting.google.com...
> Here is a quote from
> "The Third Manifesto" by Darwen and Date
> (page 514, 2nd ed.):
>
> <quote>
>
> (...) it is worth mentioning that, although SQL is
> widely recognized as the international "relational"
> database standard, [the SQL1999 standard] does not describe
> itself as such; in fact, it never uses the term
> "relation" at all! (Indeed, it does not use the term
> "database" either; instead, as noted in Appendix H,
> it talks about something called SQL-data, which is
> "any data described by schemas that is uner the control
> of an SQL-implementation in an SQL-environment.")
>
> <unquote>
>
> Can anybody tell me the reason for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lauri Pietarinen
Received on Thu Jul 18 2002 - 14:51:44 CDT