Looking for free SQL Standard documention.

rblackwe on 2008-11-10T23:06:54

At PPW a hallway track discussion came up about having a test on CPAN that could test database conformance with the various SQL standards.

I am attempting to do some resarch on this and am not finding a good free reference for the SQL standards.

This is what I have found so far but it is not free.

You can kind of think of this as Acid2 for databases.


NIST, perhaps ?

renodino on 2008-11-10T23:48:17

NIST SQL Test Suite used to be the conformance std; alas, its a bit dated (I think it still only supported SQL 92). However, its likely a decent starting point.

It ain't much, but it's something...

Ron Savage on 2008-11-11T04:56:14

http://savage.net.au/SQL.html

Drafts

bart on 2008-11-11T12:21:58

You can't get the final version for free, but usually you can find drafts for the standard. The final draft usually is quite close to the actual standard.

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