For many companies, SQL standard conformity is an important consideration when choosing a relational database management system (RDMS), so why is this standard considered optional for database ...

Ok, I'm at a client site where they want to make a program database independent. This is a rewrite of an existing program that used an Access database only. I asked the person in charge how they were ...

Google has rolled out a new beta of BigQuery, the data warehousing and analysis service available on Google Cloud Platform, which lets admins use standard SQL instead of one of its dialects.

Google is abandoning its homegrown SQL variant as the recommended default query language for its BigQuery service in favor of a new standard-compliant dialect in the works for the managed data ...