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Maybe if SQL was a better language at the start, there would be more incentive to follow the spec.

IIRC there was am ANSI/FIPS standard which was dropped under the bill clinton's administration, which is when things started to diverge.

(Info from memory, may be wrong or a bit mangled)

SQL is an amazingly good language for what it does. It has been with us coming up on 5 decades.

Minus everyone having different versions of it to facilitate the missing functionality/needs of users