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1. Where's the SQL3 spec?

   Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@docs.uu.se> — 2000-03-01T15:04:19Z

   Can somebody point me to a place where I can get one of those public
   drafts of SQL3? I heard DEC has the somewhere, but where?
   
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   Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115
   peter_e@gmx.net                   75262 Uppsala
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2. Re: [HACKERS] Where's the SQL3 spec?

   Kardos, Dr. Andreas <kardos@repas-aeg.de> — 2000-03-01T15:35:22Z

   http://ftp.digital.com/pub/standards/sql/
   
   from August, 1994.
   
   Andreas Kardos
   
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   Can somebody point me to a place where I can get one of those public
   drafts of SQL3? I heard DEC has the somewhere, but where?
   
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   Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115
   peter_e@gmx.net                   75262 Uppsala
   http://yi.org/peter-e/            Sweden
   
   
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3. Re: [HACKERS] Where's the SQL3 spec?

   Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu> — 2000-03-01T16:35:11Z

   On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:04:19PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
   > Can somebody point me to a place where I can get one of those public
   > drafts of SQL3? I heard DEC has the somewhere, but where?
   
   Hmm, a quick google search seems to indicate that the various SQL draft
   standards have been picked up by the dbperl package, and distributed to
   CPAN mirror sites as the directory refinfo inside the module "dbperl". The
   home directory seems to be one that may be close (in netspace) to Sweden:
   
   http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/dbperl/refinfo/
   
   Hmm, there's an interesting Manifesto in there, authored by Darwen and 
   Date (no copyright date on it, though): Seems they doesn't care for SQL
   very much as an implementation of the Relational Model.
   
   Ahh, web search engines are getting good (or is that bad?) enough to
   revive a favorite game of mine from childhood: "Things I learned on the
   way to looking up other things":
   
   A google search on a bare 'SQL3' turns up this link:
   
   http://www.objs.com/x3h7/fmindex.htm
   
   It's a couple years old, but has some white papers giving interpretations
   of the object models from different systems, including SQL3.
   
   The Manifesto I mentioned above also talks about OO (there, cheekly
   defined as an abreviation of Other Orthogonal, so the paper talks about RM
   Prescriptions and Proscriptions, and OO Prescriptions and Proscriptions)
   Specifically, how the Relational and Object Models might (not) interact.
   
   There's also a "state of the standards" page, though it's last modified
   date is 1997, and it talks about "upcoming votes" in '97. Still, an
   interesting take on the standards setting processes:
   
   http://www.jcc.com/SQLPages/jccs_sql.htm
   
   Ross
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   NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
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