>> Is there *any* SQL server that actually follows the standard? *I* sure
>> haven't found one. Better get rid of all the databases the government
>> keeps too.
> 
> There's no database product I've seen that fully and only implements the
> SQL:2003 standard, forget the latest one. Most products implement somewhere
> between some and most of the standard, then add their own features on top.
> It's what makes the idea of 'database portability' such a joke

On the other hand, they all implement more than enough of the standard 
that you can write applications that can target arbitrary database engines.

Additionally, there's absolutely no need to scrap database engines when 
exporting data from one engine to another is so trivial... Sure, the 
database integrity logic and indexes and constraints and so forth are 
another matter, but the *data* is easy to get at. The same doesn't apply 
to Word...

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