A survey on usage of SQL

  • Authors:
  • Hongjun Lu;Hock Chuan Chan;Kwok Kee Wei

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Relational database systems have been on market for more than a decade. SQL has been accepted as the standard query language of relational systems. To further understand the usage of relational systems and relational query language SQL, we conducted a survey recently that covers various aspects of the usage of SQL in industrial organizations. In this paper, we present those results that may interest DBMS researcher and developers, including the profiles of SQL users, the application areas where SQL is used, the usage of different features of SQL and difficulties encountered by SQL users.