Is there a SQL Plugin

[Andreas Ericsson]

Paul L. Allen wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson writes:
> 
>> Trivia time. :)
> 
> 
> Trivia can be fun.
> 
>> Paul L. Allen wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Benoy writes:
>>>
>>>> SQL is just a Database language..
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> True.
>>
>>
>> SQL = Structured Query Language. It's connected with databases only by 
>> coincidense, just like any UNIX OS could have apps written in Pascal 
>> rather than C.
> 
> 
> Do you happen to know of anything that isn't effectively a database that
> accepts SQL queries?

No, but I can think of a few applications where it might make sense to 
implement a subset of ANSI SQL.

>  I don't (but I admit I don't know everything).  I
> have to say that I find it difficult to conceive of doing left and right
> joins, for example, on something that wasn't effectively a database or
> had a mode of operation in which it was effectively acting as a database.

A textfile is a database. Neither relational nor structured, but still a 
database, of sorts.

> I could talk to the postman in SQL, but I doubt he'd understand me or
> give me an answer if he did.
> 

It might be fun to try. If he/she is a closet-nerd you might even get an 
answer.

>>> Not entirely true.  Each database has its own proprietary 
>>> extensions.  That said, I cannot conceive of any *sane* system where 
>>> a plugin would
>>> need to check the functioning of those proprietary features rather than
>>> performing a simpler check of access to a particular table or record.
>>
>>
>> There's also ANSI SQL. Most (all?) RDBM's servers implement a superset 
>> of the required parts of the language,
> 
> 
> I expect that some of them don't implment all the required parts, or
> implement some of the required parts incorrectly.  I would guess that
> most of them claim to implement all the required parts and try to do so
> even if they don't.

Actually, no RDBMS that I've heard of implements all of the optional 
parts, but all of them implement the required parts (one way or another).

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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