Accredited Standards Committee* X3, Information Technology NEWS RELEASE Doc. No.: PR/96-067 Reply to: Barbara Bennett at bbennett@itic.nw.dc.us X3 Announces the Approval of the Revised Program of Work for Database Language SQL (SQL3) Washington D.C., September 1996 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, Information Technology announces the revised program of work for the revision of Database Language SQL. The SQL3 development is being done in X3H2, Database, the US TAG to JTC 1/SC21/WG3, the International Subcommittee for Database.
The revised program of work responds to the need to independently group the current SQL standards (SQL2) and the emerging new SQL projects (SQL3). By aligning the program of work between X3H2 and JTC 1/SC21, this supports the goal to produce identical domestic and international SQL Language standards. The revised scope for the SQL3 standards specifies additional statements, data types, clauses, and other language for increased user capabilities and greater portability among heterogeneous environments, including both relational and object-oriented database systems.
SQL3 is comprised of eight parts and will be published individually, as work in separable technological areas is completed:

Part 1: SQL/Framework
Part 2: SQL/foundation
Part 3: SQL/CLI
Part 4: SQL/PSM
Part 5: SQL/Bindings
Part 6: SQL/Transactions
Part 7: SQL/Temporal
Part 8: SQL/Object

All organizations and individuals who are directly or materially affected are invited to participate. The next meeting of X3H2 is October 28-31, 1996 in Wilmington, DE. Inquiries regarding SQL should be sent to the Chairman of X3H2, Dr. Donald R. Deutsch, Sybase, Inc., Suite 800, 6550 Rock Spring Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817. Email: deutsch@sybase.com. An initial call for possible patents and other pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is now being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the X3 Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005. Email: x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us.

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