Re: Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:54:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> SQL is only one possible relational query language.  It didn't
> become de facto standard until the mid- to late-80s.
>
> It is an outgrowth of SEQEL (Structured English QuEry Language),
> which was IBM's 1st try at a descriptive query language.  DEC
> had RDML (Relational Data Manipulation Language) to access it's
> RDBMS.  I'm sure that Burroughs, etc, had their own access methods,
> too.

Of course, in the context of a PostgreSQL list you can't forget QUEL and
PostQUEL, Ingres and POSTGRES query languages respectively.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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