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26 unusual facts about SQL


ActiveX Data Objects

No knowledge of SQL is required to access a database when using ADO, although one can use ADO to execute SQL commands directly (with the disadvantage of introducing a dependency upon the type of database used).

CA ERwin Data Modeler

Forward engineering: Once the database designer is satisfied with the physical model, the tool can automatically generate a SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) script that can either be directly executed on the RDBMS environment or saved to a file.

Coalescence

COALESCE, an SQL command that selects the first non-null from a range of values

Configurable Network Computing

JDENET handles communications at the presentation layer with other internal JDE application, while JDEBASE is the JDE middleware that provides platform-independent multi-vendor SQL database access.

Generalized selection

In SQL, general selections are performed by using WHERE definitions with AND, OR, or NOT operands in SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

GPHPedit

Currently in beta test phase, gPHPEdit will recognise SQL files and colour highlight the file during editing.

Grantsmart

In addition they offered to make their database and technology, archived in a MySQL database (multithreaded, multi-user structured query language database management system) available to any organization that would continue its mission of making the information searchable for free.

I.T.S. Engineering College

The main licensed database servers are Oracle 10g and SQL Server 2000.

IBM Office/36

Query/36 was not quite the same as SQL, but it had some similarities, especially the ability to very rapidly create a displayed recordset from a disk file.

IBM Rational ClearQuest

The schemas are actually stored as SQL within the tables of the Schema Repository database itself.

Lotus DataLens

It provided drivers for a number of common data sources, including a variety of mainframe SQL servers, microcomputer database files of various sorts, and even flat-file systems.

NDB Cluster

It can be used independently of a MySQL Server with users accessing the Cluster via the NDB API (C++).

Objecteering

In addition to its UML 2.0 modeling capabilities, Objecteering 6 Enterprise Edition fully supports requirements management integrated with UML, report and documentation production, and code generation for Java, C++, C#, SQL DDL, CORBA IDL and Fortran.

OpenTMS

Currently the following data sources are supported: TMX files, XLIFF file, SQL databases.

Oracle E-Business Suite

Significant technologies incorporated into the applications include the Oracle database technologies, (engines for RDBMS, PL/SQL, Java, .NET, HTML and XML), the "technology stack" (Oracle Forms Server, Oracle Reports Server, Apache Web Server, Oracle Discoverer, Jinitiator and Sun's Java).

Oracle LogMiner

Oracle LogMiner, a utility provided by Oracle Corporation to purchasers of its Oracle database, provides methods of querying logged changes made to an Oracle database, principally though SQL commands referencing data in Oracle redo logs.

Oracle Spatial and Graph

The geospatial feature of Oracle Spatial and Graph provides a SQL schema and functions that facilitate the storage, retrieval, update, and query of collections of spatial features in an Oracle database.

PHPEdit

It is written in Delphi and runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is designed mainly for the PHP language, but supports many other languages such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript, INI, PHPEditScript, PlainText, SQL, XML, and XSLT.

Prosa UML Modeller

Prosa automates diagram creation and checking, and produces C++, C#, Java code headers and SQL DDL for implementation.

Remote Data Services

With the popular adoption of Transact-SQL, which extends SQL with such programming constructs as loops and conditional statements, this became less necessary and it was eventually deprecated in Microsoft Data Access Components version 2.7.

SkyOS

With the help of the SQL-based Index Feeder, SkyFS supports fast metadata and full-text searching similar in concept to WinFS and Spotlight.

SQL

In the late 1970s, Relational Software, Inc. (now Oracle Corporation) saw the potential of the concepts described by Codd, Chamberlin, and Boyce and developed their own SQL-based RDBMS with the aspirations of selling it to the U.S. Navy, Central Intelligence Agency, and other U.S. government agencies.

SQLXML

SQL/XML, extension to the SQL standard that specifies SQL-based extensions for using XML in conjunction with SQL.

System Global Area

shared pool, the cache of parsed commonly used SQL statements, and also the data-dictionary cache containing tables, views and triggers

User Programmatic Interface

UPI offers a procedural API for not only performing certain database administration tasks (such as system startup and shutdown), but also for using PL/SQL or SQL to query, access, and manipulate data.

Web Coverage Service

This is an abstract query language (like SQL and XQuery) that is independent from any other OGC service standard.


Applications-By-Forms

It provides an ASCII form painter, which automatically binds form fields to a database using ABF, a programming language, with embedded SQL, simplifying the task of making a "CRUD" application for textual data.

Ashish Gulhati

He is an open source developer and the author of several extensions to the Perl programming language, including PerlVision, Crypt::GPG, Crypt::Schnorr::AuthSign, Persistence::Database::SQL and Persistence::Object::Postgres.

Belfield, Dublin

Only some specialized activities remained until recently in Dublin, such as: IT support for Bank of Ireland and Microsoft PSS, the Premier and Professional Support service center for Microsoft on Windows Core and Platform, Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint products.

Builder pattern

It can be used for objects that contain flat data (html code, SQL query, X.509 certificate...), that is to say, data that can't be easily edited.

Data Access Manager

Core Data allows developers to serialize data into SQLite for processing, similar in concept to ODBC when used with a non-SQL data source.

Database administration and automation

In addition, 3rd parties such as BMC, Quest Software, Embarcadero Technologies, EMS Database Management Solutions and SQL Maestro Group offer GUI tools to monitor the DBMS and help DBAs carry out certain functions inside the database more easily.

Database trigger

Triggers in Sedna were designed to be analogous to SQL:2003 triggers, but natively base on XML query and update languages (XPath, XQuery and XML update language).

Declarative programming

Such systems, typically using a domain-specific XML namespace, may include abstractions of SQL database syntax or parameterised calls to web services using representational state transfer (REST) and SOAP.

FIT Issue Management

It features a proprietary flat file database, but can also connect to any JDBC compliant database such as Oracle, MySQL and MS-SQL with the optional database module.

Gellish English

For example, it can be implemented as SQL database tables, as XML data stores, as collections of RDF triples, as STEPfiles (according to ISO 10303-21), or as one or more simple spreadsheet tables.

Grendel's Cave

Grendel's Net conducted their development as an experiment in Classic ASP and Microsoft SQL 6.0 programming for the World Wide Web.

Honker Union

As proof of concept exploit code for the SQL Server bug utilised by SQL Slammer, written by David Litchfield, was found in the Honker Union website, it was speculated that the worm was spread by Honker Union.

HP 3000

The key development that led to the tremendous success of the HP 3000 was the bundling of the HP-developed network database management system (DBMS) called IMAGE (now called TurboIMAGE/SQL) that was reputedly inspired by the TOTAL DBMS developed by Cincom Systems, Inc. IMAGE was an award-winning database anointed by Datamation within two years of the database's introduction.

Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology

KMIT Finishing School is set up with affiliation to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, one of its kind is exclusive to KMIT,where students are trained in various Software technologies including iPhone Applications and Android Apps development, SQL and so on along with industrial orientation which help them in their career path and to ensure the college motto is realized.

Magic quotes

Modern database engines and libraries use parameterised queries to pass data to the database separately from SQL commands, greatly reducing the need to escape data before constructing the queries.

Microsoft BackOffice Server

:includes Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000, SMS 2.0, Exchange Server 2000, ISA Server 2000, and Host Integration Server 2000.

MikroMikko

At least SQL/DMS database software and NOSS document manager software was available.

MysqlBind

mysqlBind (now unxsBind) centralizes all data in a replicated SQL database and limits any DNS configuration errors to one software package failure point.

Object-relational impedance mismatch

For example, most SQL systems support string types with varying collations and constrained maximum lengths (open-ended text types tend to hinder performance), while most OO languages consider collation only as an argument to sort routines and strings are intrinsically sized to available memory.

Professional Petroleum Data Management Association

The specifications DDL are provided for use in Oracle and SQL Server systems.

Programming Language for Business

It has a database capability built-in with ISAM and Associative Hashed Indexes, as well as ODBC, SQL, Oracle, sequential, random access, and XML files.

Query language

FQL enables you to use a SQL-style interface to query the data exposed by the Graph API.

Red Gate Deployment Manager

Native support for SQL Server and SQL Azure database deployments (using a built-in version of Red Gate’s SQL Compare engine).

Replay 4

It provides application integration with mission-critical Microsoft applications, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Hyper-V.

SQL Server Pro

SQL Server Pro, however, focuses more on Microsoft's relational database management system than Windows IT Pro, which has a broader focus.

SRID

In spatially enabled databases (such as IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Teradata, PostgreSQL and SQL Anywhere), SRIDs are used to uniquely identify the coordinate systems used to define columns of spatial data or individual spatial objects in a spatial column (depending on the spatial implementation).

SSMS

SQL Server Management Studio, a tool for configuring, managing, and administering all components within Microsoft SQL Server

Sybase

The acquisition also marked the basis of Sybase’s entry into the enterprise mobility market with Watcom SQL, which Sybase renamed SQL Anywhere.

TnFOX

TnFOX optionally includes copies of the OpenSSL library and the SQLite library in order to implement its strong encryption and its default SQL database implementation respectively.

Watcom

In 1992, Watcom began a move into the client-server arena with the introduction of Watcom SQL, a SQL database server product.