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In article <01bd20fa$0d9dcc40$1030f489@jyuzamas.robins.af.mil>, 
jyuzamas@wrdiss1.robins.af.mil says...
> The history of SQL begins in an IBM laboratory in San Jose, California,
> where 
> SQL was developed in the late 1970s. The initials stand for Structured
> Query 
> Language, and the language itself is often referred to as "sequel." It was 
> originally developed for IBM's DB2 product (a relational database
> management 
> system, or RDBMS, that can still be bought today for various platforms and 
> environments). 
> 
Joe,

I suspect, although I don't know, that the group that put together the 
SQL-92 Standard does not want to acknowledge that SQL, in that Standard,  
stands for Structured Query Language as described above for two 
reasons...
1. The possibility of copyright issues with IBM.
2. The SQL-92 Standard going beyond the definition of Structured Query 
Language as defined by IBM.

These same considerations could prompt a Standards Committee for Xbase to 
declare that "d" should not be substituted for "X".  Arguments on these 
types of issues could go on ad infinitum and nobody can ever be 100% 
correct.

Gerald