Apples and Grapes.

  SQL itself is ANSI (perhaps from IBM originally) and a FIPS standard,
too.  SQL is a lanquage based on relational ideas for access and
maniuplation of data from tables in a database. It can be used from
the command line on the database host as well as through various types
of connections.

  ODBC itself uses SQL and has a Microsoft heritage. ODBC describes how
the application connected to and sends SQL statements to the database
in a semi generic way (so the application supposedly doesn't need to
care what kind of database is really "under" the ODBC connection).

I hope this helps.
Richard Gambrell

"Johnson, Tracy" wrote:
>
> Now someone the other day told me that MS
> wrote more that 50% of ODBC spec and code.
>
> Now was he wrong?
>
> Tracy M. Johnson
> TRW Automotive Electronics
> Sensors & Components
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Gordon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 10:43 AM
> To: Johnson, Tracy; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ODBC
>
> I'm sure Wirt will correct me if I'm wrong :), but wasn't it Dr. Codd while
> he was at IBM?
>
> At 07:35 AM 4/15/2000, Johnson, Tracy wrote:
> >This is true, ANSI adopted the standard, but who wrote it?
> >
> >Tracy M. Johnson
> >TRW Automotive Electronics
> >Sensors & Components
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Simonsen, Larry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 1:58 PM
> >To: Johnson, Tracy; [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: RE: ODBC
> >
> >
> >SQL is a ANSI standard.  Not Microsoft
> >
> >-------------------------------------------------


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