%0 Generic %1 Gulutzan2002 %A Gulutzan, Peter %D 2002 %K sql standard %T The NIST Tests Were Not Standard SQL %U http://www.ocelot.ca/nist.htm %X NIST (the National Institute for Standards and Testing) used to put out tests which "verified" whether a DBMS complied with SQL standard requirements. They are obsolete, but some commentators still refer to them today. Some have even suggested that SQL-92 is preferable to the current standard (SQL-99 aka SQL:1999), because SQL-92 conformance can be "verified" by the NIST tests and SQL-99 cannot be. I have written this article to dispute those suggestions. I have tested the NIST tests, and concluded: Any DBMS which passes the NIST tests is violating the SQL standard.

@misc{Gulutzan2002, abstract = {NIST (the National Institute for Standards and Testing) used to put out tests which "verified" whether a DBMS complied with SQL standard requirements. They are obsolete, but some commentators still refer to them today. Some have even suggested that SQL-92 is preferable to the current standard (SQL-99 aka SQL:1999), because SQL-92 conformance can be "verified" by the NIST tests and SQL-99 cannot be. I have written this article to dispute those suggestions. I have tested the NIST tests, and concluded: Any DBMS which passes the NIST tests is violating the SQL standard.}, added-at = {2010-10-05T09:48:22.000+0200}, author = {Gulutzan, Peter}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2bb12f9710a38b6430b60ac9ea4717827/voj}, interhash = {3b7e983dd498b88ad72888f808c287cd}, intrahash = {bb12f9710a38b6430b60ac9ea4717827}, keywords = {sql standard}, month = {11}, timestamp = {2010-10-05T09:48:22.000+0200}, title = {The NIST Tests Were Not Standard SQL}, url = {http://www.ocelot.ca/nist.htm}, year = 2002 }