On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:54:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > SQL is only one possible relational query language. It didn't > become de facto standard until the mid- to late-80s. > > It is an outgrowth of SEQEL (Structured English QuEry Language), > which was IBM's 1st try at a descriptive query language. DEC > had RDML (Relational Data Manipulation Language) to access it's > RDBMS. I'm sure that Burroughs, etc, had their own access methods, > too.
Of course, in the context of a PostgreSQL list you can't forget QUEL and PostQUEL, Ingres and POSTGRES query languages respectively. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Hay quien adquiere la mala costumbre de ser infeliz" (M. A. Evans) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
