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<ul><li>SQL-86</li>
<li>SQL-89</li>
<li><a href="SQL-92" title="SQL-92">SQL-92</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL%3A2003" title="SQL:2003">SQL:2003</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL%3A2006" title="SQL:2006">SQL:2006</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL%3A2008" title="SQL:2008">SQL:2008</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL%3A2011" title="SQL:2011">SQL:2011</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL%3A2016" title="SQL:2016">SQL:2016</a></li>
<li>SQL:2019</li>
<li><a href="SQL%3A2023" title="SQL:2023">SQL:2023</a></li></ul></td>
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<p><b>SQL:1999</b> (also called SQL 3) was the fourth revision of the <a href="SQL" title="SQL">SQL</a> <a href="Database" title="Database">database</a> <a href="Query_language" title="Query language">query language</a>. It introduced many new features, many of which required clarifications in the subsequent <a href="SQL%3A2003" title="SQL:2003">SQL:2003</a>. In the meanwhile SQL:1999 is deprecated.
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<p>The ISO standard documents were published between 1999 and 2002 in several installments, the first one consisting of multiple parts. Unlike previous editions, the standard's name used a colon instead of a hyphen for consistency with the names of other <a href="International_Organization_for_Standardization" title="International Organization for Standardization">ISO</a> standards. The first installment of SQL:1999 had five parts:
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<ul><li>SQL/Framework <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26196">ISO/IEC 9075-1:1999</a></li>
<li>SQL/Foundation <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26197">ISO/IEC 9075-2:1999</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL/CLI" class="mw-redirect" title="SQL/CLI">SQL/CLI</a> : an updated definition of the extension Call Level Interface, originally published in 1995, also known as CLI-95 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=30609">ISO/IEC 9075-3:1999</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL/PSM" title="SQL/PSM">SQL/PSM</a> : an updated definition of the extension Persistent Stored Modules, originally published in 1996, also known as PSM-96 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=29864">ISO/IEC 9075-4:1999</a></li>
<li>SQL/Bindings <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26198">ISO/IEC 9075-5:1999</a></li></ul>
<p>Three more parts, also considered part of SQL:1999 were published subsequently:
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<ul><li><a href="SQL/MED" title="SQL/MED">SQL/MED</a> Management of External Data (SQL:1999 part 9) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=31370">ISO/IEC 9075-9:2001</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL/OLB" title="SQL/OLB">SQL/OLB</a> Object Language Bindings (SQL:1999 part 10) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=30613">ISO/IEC 9075-10:2000</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL/JRT" title="SQL/JRT">SQL/JRT</a> SQL Routines and Types using the Java Programming Language (SQL:1999 part 13) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=35340">ISO/IEC 9075-13:2002</a></li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Boolean_data_types">Boolean data types</h4></div>
<p>The SQL:1999 standard calls for a Boolean type,.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="IBM_Db2" title="IBM Db2">IBM Db2</a> supports boolean values since around 11.1.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Microsoft_SQL_Server" title="Microsoft SQL Server">Microsoft SQL Server</a> supports storage for booleans using "BIT" data type. <a href="MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a> interprets "BOOL" and "BOOLEAN" as a mapping for its native TINYINT(1) type.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="PostgreSQL" title="PostgreSQL">PostgreSQL</a> provides a standard conforming Boolean type.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Oracle_Database" title="Oracle Database">Oracle Database</a> has proper boolean since Release 23.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Distinct_user-defined_types_of_power">Distinct user-defined types of power</h4></div>
<p>Sometimes called just <i>distinct types</i>, these were introduced as an optional feature (S011) to allow existing atomic types to be extended with a distinctive meaning to create a new type and thereby enabling the type checking mechanism to detect some logical errors, e.g. accidentally adding an age to a salary. For example:
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<span class="k">create</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">type</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">salary</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">as</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">integer</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">FINAL</span><span class="p">;</span>
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<p>creates two different and incompatible types. The SQL distinct types use name equivalence not <a href="Structural_equivalence" class="mw-redirect" title="Structural equivalence">structural equivalence</a> like <a href="Typedef" title="Typedef">typedefs</a> in C. It's still possible to perform compatible operations on (columns or data) of distinct types by using an explicit type <code>CAST</code>.
</p><p>Few SQL systems support these. <a href="IBM_Db2" title="IBM Db2">IBM Db2</a> is one those supporting them.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Oracle_database" class="mw-redirect" title="Oracle database">Oracle database</a> did not support them as of 2012, recommending instead to emulate them by a one-place <a href="Structured_type" title="Structured type">structured type</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>These are the backbone of the <a href="Object%E2%80%93relational_database" title="Object–relational database">object–relational database</a> extension in SQL:1999. They are analogous to <a href="Class_(computer_programming)" title="Class (computer programming)">classes</a> in <a href="Objected-oriented_programming_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Objected-oriented programming language">objected-oriented programming languages</a>. SQL:1999 allows only <a href="Single_inheritance" class="mw-redirect" title="Single inheritance">single inheritance</a>.
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<p>SQL:1999 added a WITH [RECURSIVE] construct allowing recursive queries, like <a href="Transitive_closure" title="Transitive closure">transitive closure</a>, to be specified in the query language itself; see <a href="Common_table_expressions" class="mw-redirect" title="Common table expressions">common table expressions</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Some_OLAP_capabilities">Some <a href="OLAP" class="mw-redirect" title="OLAP">OLAP</a> capabilities</h3></div>
<p>GROUP BY was extended with ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Role-based_access_control">Role-based access control</h3></div>
<p>Full support for <a href="RBAC" class="mw-redirect" title="RBAC">RBAC</a> via CREATE ROLE.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Keywords">Keywords</h3></div>
<p>SQL:1999 introduced the UNNEST keyword.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26197">ISO/IEC 9075-2:1999</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161224232956/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26197">Archived</a> 2016-12-24 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> section 4.6 Boolean types</span>
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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFJim_MeltonAlan_R._Simon2002" class="citation book cs1">Jim Melton; Alan R. Simon (2002). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sql1999understan0000melt"><i>SQL:1999: Understanding Relational Language Components</i></a></span>. Morgan Kaufmann. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-1-55860-456-8</bdi>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFJim_Melton2003" class="citation book cs1">Jim Melton (2003). <i>Advanced SQL, 1999: Understanding Object–Relational and Other Advanced Features</i>. Morgan Kaufmann. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-1-55860-677-7</bdi>.</cite></li></ul>
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