ansi-92

Why isn't SQL ANSI-92 standard better adopted over ANSI-89?

At every company I have worked at, I have found that people are still writing their SQL queries in the ANSI-89 standard: select a.id, b.id, b.address_1 from person a, address b where a.id = b.id rather than the ANSI-92 standard: select a.id, b.id, b.address_1 from person a inner join address b on a.id = b.id For an extremely simple...

sql ansi-92 Compliant Question

Are the following select statements SQL92 compliant? SELECT table1.id, table2.id,* FROM table1, table2 WHERE table1.id = table2.id SELECT table1.Num, table2.id,* FROM table1, table2 WHERE table1.Num = table2.id ...

SQL-92 Query to find earliest date dependent on column value changing

I am querying a data system with an OLEDB interface that supports SQL92. My query problem is equivalent to the one solved here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2034094/sql-query-to-find-earliest-date-dependent-on-column-value-changing, but the solution provided there and copied below is too advanced for SQL92: SELECT JobCodeId, M...