DA Morgan (damorgan@x.washington.edu) writes:[color=blue]
> Gary wrote:[color=green]
>> SQL Server 2000 does not conform to the ANSI SQL:1999 standard. From
>> what I understand, it also does not conform completely to the ANSI
>> standard previous to that, ANSI SQL-92.[/color]
>
> SQL Server 2000 does not conform and neither does anyone else's product
> if you mean full compliance.[/color]
I believe that SQL 2000 conforms to the entry-level of ANSI-92, but I
could be wrong, because as you say:
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> All the talk about compliance is meaningless because the marketplace
> just doesn't care.[/color]
I wholeheartedly agree.
Even if the same syntax would run on, say, SQL Server and Oracle, the code
may still prove not to port straight away between the two engines, because
of performance issues.
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