Dan,
> > > Claims of "conformance" are a bit specious when there isn't much of a
> > > standards body on this anymore. And vendors that consider themselves
> > > commercially important are quite prepared to ignore standards whenever
> > > it seems convenient.
> >
> > Yeah, why do you think they disbanded the compliance team in the first
> > place? Just ask Joe Celko ....
>
> I haven't spoken with Joe in years.. why don't you tell us?
I thought it was self-evident from my statement. The largest vendors
weren't happy with their scores on SQL compliance, and by the late 90's had
come to dominate the SQL committee. So they eliminated conformance testing
so that Oracle, SQL Server, etc. wouldn't look so bad.
And Joe resigned the committee ... probably over that and other things.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco