ISO/IEC 9075-2:2003
Issue date: 2003 12 15
Information technology — Database languages — SQL — Part 2: Foundation (SQL/Foundation)
ISO/IEC 9075 defines the SQL language. The scope of the SQL language is the definition of data structure and the operations on data stored in that structure. Parts 1, 2 and 11 encompass the minimum requirements of the language. Other parts define extensions.
ISO/IEC 9075-2:2003 defines the data structures and basic operations on SQL-data. It provides functional capabilities for creating, accessing, maintaining, controlling, and protecting SQL-data. Both static and dynamic variants of the language are proved. In addition to direct invocation, bindings are provided for the programming languages Ada, C, COBOL, Fortran, M, Pascal and PL/I.