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

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra_at_terra.com.br>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 10:14:43 +0100
Message-ID: <aq5dq4$6jhr3$1@ID-148886.news.dfncis.de>

Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

> Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote in message news:...
>

>> --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.

        Thanks for the pointers, but I was really looking after substantiation of the politics behind the case. The technical details I already knew.

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