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This short of Mehdi with Alex Monahan discusses the lack of evolution of the SQL standard. “(SQL) stands for Structured Query Language, not Standard Query Language”
Transcript
0:00so regarding this standard do you know when was the last one released the SQL standard they did one in 2023 I think it's got the new um graph syntax and stuff the last last big one was in uh 2016 so between 2016 and this year we don't have that much so it's pretty crazy right because if you think in term of uh data word
0:27timeline Chang lot that's a lot basically been you know living on certain standard for for quite some time and that explain why also we have quite some Divergence maybe with the different uh Thea Warehouse my quip about this is that it's it stands for structured query language not standard query language
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