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by chillfox 1112 days ago
A pay-walled standard is not available, and an unavailable standard is not a standard at all.

The only real way of fixing it is for enough people to ignore ISO so they become irrelevant.

If you are building a new DB engine (toy or not), don't use SQL. Either design a new spec or use something that's more openly specified (maybe GraphQL or EdgeQL).