Accredited Standards Committee* X3, Information Technology
NEWS RELEASE
Doc. No.: PR/95-0120
Reply to: Barbara Bennett at bbennett@itic.nw.dc.us
X3 Announces the Public Comment Period for
ISO/IEC 9579-2:1993/PDAM 1, Information Technology - Open Systems
Interconnection - Remote Database Access - Part 2: SQL Specialization -
Amendment 1: Support for SQL 92
Washington D.C., November 1995 -- Accredited Standards Committee
X3, Information Technology is announcing the public comment period for
ISO/IEC 9579-2:1993/PDAM 1. The public review extends from January
19, 1996 to March 19, 1996.
The existing RDA/SQL Specialization, ISO/IEC 9579-2:1993, provides RDA
facilities to support the Entry SQL level of ISO/IEC 9075:1992, Database
Language SQL. This proposed draft Amendment to the RDA/SQL
Specialization provides additional RDA facilities to support the
Intermediate SQL and Full SQL levels of the SQL standard. Taken together
with the Generic RDA standard, ISO/IEC 9579-1:1993, the amended
RDA/SQL Specialization will provide communications protocols that allow a
conforming RDA Client to communicate with a conforming RDA Server to
provide complete access to all features in a database managed by a
processor conforming to any level of the SQL-92 standard. This is a
protocol standard only - programming language bindings and call level
interfaces are provided by other SQL standards (e.g. ISO/IEC 9075-3:1995,
SQL/CLI).
New features in this specification include support for additional SQL-92
data types DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, and BIT string, as well as new
protocol elements for the exchange of SQL Diagnostic and SQL Descriptor
information, and enhancements for connection and transaction
management. These new facilities provide an SQL application on the client
side more efficient support for Dynamic SQL queries and runtime
management of SQL warnings and exceptions.
Note: This proposed draft amendment is being processed simultaneously
as an American National Standard and an International Standard. The
public review closes on March 19, 1996. However, in order for comments
to affect the position of the U.S. TAG, they must be received no later than
February 14, 1996. Therefore, all commentors are urged to submit
comments as early as possible in the public review period. Public review
comments received after February 14, 1996 will be addressed and
considered for future balloting and/or revision.
To facilitate speedy consideration of comments, please submit them via
email (x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us). Please note, however, that an original
hardcopy with signature is *required* before the comment will be
registered as a formal public review comment.
Submit all comments to: X3 Secretariat, Attn.: Barbara Bennett, 1250 Eye
Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005. Send a copy to: ANSI,
Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
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