An Overview of the Emerging Third-Generation SQL Standard

Summary: Overview of SQL3, a multi-volume, upward-compatible extension to SQL-92. CLI binding, PSM procedures and external-language routines; ADT-based types with subtypes and collections; recursive queries, triggers, and active-database features for non-traditional workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2903
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
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Overall Rank: 14,265 | 2.13%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223881

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Authors

1. Jim Melton
2. Nelson Mendoca Mattos

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{melton_sigmod95,
        title = {{An Overview of the Emerging Third-Generation SQL Standard}},
        author = {Melton, Jim and Mattos, Nelson Mendoca},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223881},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223881},
        year = {1995}
}

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