SQL:2016 or ISO/IEC 9075:2016 (under the general title "Information technology – Database languages – SQL") is the eighth revision of the ISO (1987) and ANSI (1986) standard for the SQL database query language. It was formally adopted in December 2016. The standard consists of 9 parts which are described in some detail in SQL. The next version is SQL:2023.
New features
SQL:2016 introduced 44 new optional features.2 22 of them belong to the JSON functionality, ten more are related to polymorphic table functions. The additions to the standard include:
- JSON: Functions to create JSON documents, to access parts of JSON documents and to check whether a string contains valid JSON data
- Row Pattern Recognition: Matching a sequence of rows against a regular expression pattern
- Date and time formatting and parsing
- LISTAGG: A function to transform values from a group of rows into a delimited string
- Polymorphic table functions: table functions without predefined return type
- New data type DECFLOAT
See also
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Structured Query LanguageExternal links
- "SQL:2016", Catalogue (webshop), ISO.
- ISO/IEC TR 19075-5:2016: Row Pattern Recognition in SQL
- ISO/IEC TR 19075-6:2017: SQL support for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- ISO/IEC TR 19075-7:2017: Polymorphic table functions in SQL
References
"ISO/IEC 9075, 13249, and others". Retrieved 2017-03-15. https://www.iso.org/committee/45342/x/catalogue/p/1/u/0/w/0/d/0 ↩
"What's New in SQL:2016". Retrieved 2017-06-16. https://modern-sql.com/blog/2017-06/whats-new-in-sql-2016 ↩