Is SQL and ANSI?

Is SQL and ANSI SQL same?

"ANSI SQL" is a series of standards for modeling and manipulating data. "SQL" is whatever bits of ANSI SQL a SQL engine vendor chooses to implement, plus whatever else they want to add.

Is SQL an ANSI standard?

SQL is a popular relational database language first standardized in 1986 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Since then, it has been formally adopted as an International Standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

Was SQL recognized by ANSI?

In 1986, the SQL language became formally accepted, and the ANSI Database Technical Committee (ANSI X3H2) of the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X3 developed the first SQL standard, ANSI X3. 135-1986. This was the beginning of what people mistakenly call the ANSI standard for SQL.

Is SQL both ANSI and ISO standard?

Industry-accepted committees are the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which is affiliated with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Both ANSI and the ISO/IEC have accepted SQL as the standard language for relational databases.