SQL is a convention. There are many RDBMSs that behave similarly and call themselves “SQL databases”. However, it’s difficult to tell whether an application that works on one SQL database will work on another SQL database. Similarly, validating a new RDBMS against the SQL specification (ISO/IEC 9075) would cost a nontrivial amount of time, effort, and money. At this point, defining “SQL” as the shared behaviors of the leading SQL RDBMSs would be just as meaningful as buying and reading the SQL specification.
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SQL is a convention. There are many RDBMS s that behave similarly and call themselves “SQL databases”. However, it’s difficult to tell whether an application that works on one SQL database will work on another SQL database. Similarly, validating a new RDBMS against the SQL specification ( ISO/IEC 9075 ) would cost a nontrivial amount of time, effort, and money. At this point,…
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