[whatwg] SQL API + access to tables

Michaeljohn Clement mj at mjclement.com
Mon Oct 22 17:09:28 PDT 2007


Křištof Želechovski wrote:
> Also, if we agreed to that, this would be a workaround for a supposed
> deficiency of SQL. But the SQL committee does not recognize it as a 
> deficiency; otherwise it would have been fixed by now.

No, this is actually fixed for 15 years now.  The SQL spec directly 
addresses this need through the information schema, since SQL92.

Every moderately complete SQL implementation I'm aware of also meets 
this need, either through the means specified by the standard, or by 
incompatible extensions, as is the general custom.

-Michaeljohn



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