What the Future Holds
When we first wrote this book in 1999, the standards committees were just putting the finishing touches on SQL3, which had been a long time in coming. Since then, SQL:1999 and SQL:2003 have been published. As of mid-2007, both the ANSI and ISO committees are hard at work producing revisions for SQL:2007. Extensive revisions are planned to Part 14, SQL/XML. The international committee is also working on a separate SQL/MM—Multimedia standard that has its own five parts: Framework, Full Text, Spatial, Still Image, and Data Mining. Although the standards committees started out far behind the commercial implementations in 1986, it’s fair to say that the SQL Standard long ago caught up with, and in many areas is now staying ahead ...
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