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SQL (correctly pronounced "ess cue ell," instead of the somewhat common "sequel")...
We changed the original name "SEQUEL" to SQL because we got a letter from somebody's lawyer that said the name "SEQUEL" belonged to them. We shortened it to SQL, for Structured Query Language, and the product was known as SQL/DS.
For each DATE
value, Oracle stores the following information: century, year, month, date, hour, minute, and second
The datetime data types are DATE
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Do not define columns with the following SQL/DS and DB2 data types, because they have no corresponding Oracle data type:... TIME
PostgreSQL prides itself in standards compliance. Its SQL implementation strongly conforms to the ANSI-SQL:2008 standard
We changed the original name "SEQUEL" to SQL because we got a letter from somebody's lawyer that said the name "SEQUEL" belonged to them. We shortened it to SQL, for Structured Query Language, and the product was known as SQL/DS.