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

Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra_at_terra.com.br> wrote in message news:<apm30g$2qh18$1_at_ID-148886.news.dfncis.de>...
> --CELKO-- wrote:
>
> >
> > In the old days, it was simple. We had the FIPS-127 Conformance test
> > suite. If your product could pass that suite of tests correctly, you
> > got a certificate from NIST and your could bid for Federal Contracts.
> > Unfortunately, Bill Clinton dropped this program for a few campaign
> > donations.
>
>
> That's a most interesting piece of information. Are there references
> to substantiate it? Like a write-up anywhere in the Web, or a trade
> press article or whatever?

Do you really need more substance than Celko regarding SQL ? :)

Here are some links that tell about the NIST SQL test suite shutdown.

http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fedreg4.htm
http://www.tdan.com/i002fe04.htm
http://www.dbmsmag.com/9712d06.html

The NIST SQL test suite is still available for download from http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/sql_form.htm

and the FIPS 127-2 document is also available at http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip127-2.htm

Core SQL-99 includes all of Entry SQL-92, much of Transitional and Intermediate SQL-92, some of Full SQL-92 and some SQL-99 features, so this test suite is still very useful even for SQL-99 testing. We run the NIST test suite in our internal testing on a daily basis in addition to our own SQL test suites.

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Daniel Gustafsson
Mimer SQL Development
Validate SQL statements for SQL-92 and SQL-99 compliance at 
http://developer.mimer.se/validator