“... And Then There Was a Standard”
With the flurry of activity surrounding the development of database languages, you could easily wonder if anyone ever thought of standardization. Although the idea was tossed about among the database community, there was never any consensus or agreement as to who should set the standard or which dialect it should be based upon. So each vendor continued to develop and improve its own database product in the hope that it—and by extension, its dialect of SQL—would become the industry standard.
Customer feedback and demand drove many vendors to include certain elements in their SQL dialects, and in time an unofficial standard emerged. It was a small specification by today’s standards, as it encompassed only those ...
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