Implementing the Spirit of SQL-99

Summary: Reviews INFORMIX IDS/UD (9.2/Centaur) and its realization of the SQL-99 spirit, contrasted with SQL-92 and other ORDBMSs. Argues that SQL-99 requires further work for true object-relational usefulness, and highlights IDS/UD-specific features and real-world dilemmas the standard omits. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3197
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,903 | 11.48%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304236

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Authors

1. Paul Brown (Informix)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brown_sigmod99,
        title = {{Implementing the Spirit of SQL-99}},
        author = {Brown, Paul},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304236},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304236},
        year = {1999}
}

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3,036	On Parallel Processing of Aggregate and Scalar Functions in Object-Relational DBMS	1998	SIGMOD	7.8287552e-05

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