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Press Release, February 20, 2002

Upright Database Technology provides developers worldwide with the opportunity to give input for the next SQL standard, SQL-200x.

Mimer SQL Validator, available on Upright Database Technology’s Web site, is a service which enables everyone to validate their SQL statements according to the SQL-200x (draft version, Jan-11-2002), SQL-99 and SQL-92 standards. The statements are saved, if the user agrees, anonymously and the user can also enter comments on the standard.

The data gathered provides the SQL standardization committee with information about functions used and errors made in the SQL statements as well as any comments users make.

Upright Database Technology is a voting member of the SQL standard committee and works actively defining SQL-200x, the working name of the next version of the SQL standard. Upright Database Technology has noticed an increased interest in conforming to the SQL standard.

“During 2001, we decided to develop Mimer SQL Validator to help system developers to conform to the SQL standard, and in so doing, avoid ‘painting themselves into a corner’ with a specific database management system,” explains Åke Persson, one of the Mimer SQL developers and Sweden’s representative on the ISO’s SQL standardization committee.

When committee members saw Mimer SQL Validator, they realized how it could benefit them in their work. Therefore, the committee has asked Upright Database Technology to compile this valuable information so that they can use it in their work with the new SQL standard which is estimated to be ready in July 2003.

Mimer SQL Validator is available at the Mimer SQL developer site: http://developer.mimer.com >>
Complete lists of all words reserved in the SQL-92, SQL-99 and SQL-200x (draft) standards are also available there.


Upright Database Technology, the company behind Mimer SQL and Mimer SQL Validator, also provides customers with training, support, consulting and test lab services through its Database Excellence Center. At the center, you can find many of Europe’s most competent experts in the field of advanced relational database development, many with more than 20 years experience.

Upright Database Technology is a voting member of the SQL standard committee and works actively to define SQL-200x, the working name of the next version of the SQL standard.

Mimer SQL is the world’s most complete SQL database management system with 100% support for Transitional SQL-92.