Developers rely on the consistency of certain concepts--that's why we have standards. But does ANSI/SQL still qualify as a standard? And, if not, why?

SwisSQL 1.0 supports Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ANSI-SQL databases. Future releases will support Sybase Inc. and SAP databases.

However MySQL’s stored code-objects are close to ANSI standards, but again, they don’t have the breadth and depth of T-SQL, Microsoft, and Sybase’s proprietary extension to SQL.

Oracle DatabaseとMicrosoft SQL Serverを比較。前編では可用性とセキュリティ面でOracle Databaseが優れていることを解説する。