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Obtaining gratis copy of the SQL specification?

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Problem

There used to be a public link to the JTC 1/SC 32 working drafts of 9075:2003, but the link I had has not worked since they started on the post-2003 revisions. Given that there are publicly available copies of many of their other specifications (11179-1:2004, for example), I'm wondering if any one knows of any ways to legally get access to the ISO/IEC 9075 specifications. Perhaps there is a link to the working drafts, or a Foundation that provides access to it for something less than the roughly $3000 USD it would cost me to learn SQL from the standards body instead of relying on implementation-specific books and documentation.

Solution

Here they are:

  • SQL:2008 draft



  • ISO/IEC 9075:1992 2nd Draft



But I'd rather read read a book:

  • SQL-99 Complete, Really



  • Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties

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StackExchange Database Administrators Q#778, answer score: 10

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