Actually, there are *lots* of SQL standards.

The one banded around most is SQL92 - and MS SQL Server is probably the DB which supports it closest (they make a big deal about it), but I can't think of a single DB that supports the full SQL92 standard.

Don't even get me started on the later SQL standards (96 is the latest, I think).

For a start, even MS SQL Server only sort of supports the INFORMATION_SCHEMA user and the various views/etc which go with that.

On top of that, what you say is true - each DB has it's own extensions on top of the SQL standards - functions, packages, aggregation, etc. There is a massive list of additional options - and everyone says their implementation is the best.

Cheers,

Paul.

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RioReceiver - Still Waiting for one in the UK.

let's test with [ laugh ] :
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this is gonna be a very long line which is quite longer than any line you will probably have seen before, just to test my theary that a post with a long line is going to be breaking up using BR tags in the BBS's own markup language

this is gonna be a very long line which is quite longer than any line you will probably have seen before, just to test my theary that a post with a long line is going to be breaking up using BR tags in the BBS's own markup language

this is gonna be a very long line which is quite longer than any line you will probably have seen before, just to test my theary that a post with a long line is going to be breaking up using BR tags in the BBS's own markup language

this is gonna be a very long line which is quite longer than any line you will probably have seen before, just to test my theary that a post with a long line is going to be breaking up using BR tags in the BBS's own markup language

this is gonna be a very long line which is quite longer than any line you will probably have seen before, just to test my theary that a post with a long line is going to be breaking up using BR tags in the BBS's own markup language

this is gonna be a very long line which is quite longer than any line you will probably have seen before, just to test my theary that a post with a long line is going to be breaking up using BR tags in the BBS's own markup language

this is gonna be a very long line which is quite longer than any line you will probably have seen before, just to test my theary that a post with a long line is going to be breaking up using BR tags in the BBS's own markup language

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Now I've edited it and added this line
Now I've edited with IE5

Frank van Gestel

Edited by fvgestel on 24/06/01 12:11 PM.

I cannot reconstruct the behaviour. As you saw in the first post, all lines got broken up at about 60 characters. Now the lines stay long. Very strange...

Frank van Gestel

As for other servers, I just looked at http://verzeichnisdienst.de/ldap/Server/ and saw some interesting stuff : eudora and ibm both provide freeware LDAP-servers for NT/2000.

IBM uses DB2 as it's backend, which has an awkward licence attached to it.
Eudora is a port of openldap to win32. It uses DB files as backend. I've got it running on my win2k box.
Anyone can try it using:

ldapsearch -h fvgestel.dyndns.org -b o=empegcar cn=*

Frank van Gestel