Re: Lucid statement of the MV vs RM position?

Jan Hidders wrote:
> dawn wrote:
> > If you
> > are saying that every site can implement it, including making any
> > relevant changes to the query language, has anyone done that?
>
> Yes. User-defined types (UDTs) were already added in SQL:1999.

Silly me. More to the point is of course the ARRAY type in SQL:1999. For an example and short explanation see:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Teaching/2003/Databases/sql1999.pdf

There they are still bounded, in SQL:2003 they are also allowed to be unbounded.

• Jan Hidders