On 18-4-2018 16:55, blackfalconsoftware@... [firebird-support]
wrote:

> I have to disagree with your observation.  It is clearly stated in the
> Firebird SQL Reference Manual that the development of Firebird-SQL is
> with a strict implementation of the SQL-92 Standard.

Could you provide a reference (I can't find it in the Firebird 2.5
language reference), because if that is the case, that is either an
error or a statement taken out of context.

Firebird is not a strict implementation of SQL-92, but if we consider
SQL features, we usually try to follow the SQL standard specification
for that feature.

> This is not to say that Firebird-SQL does not go beyond the SQL-92
> Standard but it is somewhat limited in this respect when compared to the
> other major SQL implementation for which I have used them all with the
> exception of of IBM's DB2...

Could you provide explicit examples of what you're missing, so that we
can consider improvements to Firebird's dialect.

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel