Oracle Corp reckons that its relational database is the first to be validated by the US National Institute of Standards & Technology for compliance with the Government’s SQL Standard for the Ada programming language – but then it is the first to have been tested for SQL conformance. Oracle was also validated under three Unix operating systems – SunOS, HP-UX and DG-UX to complement the validation under VAX/VMS completed earlier this year – using both the current release, version 6.0, and a version of the next release, version 7.0, with the first exceeding the 90% compliance score required in many Federal procurements, and version 7.0 showing 100% score on the nearly 400 test cases in the full SQL Validation Test Suite, including the optional Integrity Enhancement Feature: declarative referential and entity integrity. They were validated to Level 2 of the ANSI SQL89 and Embedded SQL standards.
