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ANTI-SQL SIG Application Name: Company: Address: Title/Duties: City: State: ZIP: Country: Work phone: Home phone: Email: DB products used: Languages used: Computer platforms: [ ] My name may be released as a supporter. [ ] Please keep my name as a supporter confidential. ================================================================== Questionnaire (answer A=Agree, D=Disagree, O=Other (explain)) 1. Efforts to standardize SQL should be abandoned, and it should be scrapped. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 2. SQL syntax is fundamentally flawed, and SQL cannot be fixed by extending it. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 3. It is feasible to develop and adopt a new standard database access language that would be much better than SQL. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 4. Compared to an ideal alternative, SQL costs the world each year in lost productivity and performance: [ ] > $10 billion [ ] $1-10 billion [ ] $100 million-1 billion [ ] < $100 million 5. SQL is a major impediment to realizing the potential of the relational model. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 6. The ideal access language should serve as the foundation for powerful 4GLs. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 7. The ideal access language should support other models than just the relational. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 8. The ideal access language should be English-like, readable by ordinary people. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 9. The ideal access language should be user-extensible. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 10. The ideal access language should be procedural and recursive. A[ ] D[ ] O[ ] 11. The ideal access language should be [ ] functional [ ] block-structured [ ] nonprocedural [ ] other. 12. The most effective ways to get a new, better access language, are, from 1 to 8, with 1 for most effective: [ ] Boycott SQL products [ ] Organize non-SQL vendors [ ] Develop new language [ ] Open db engines to competing access languages [ ] Shift to object-oriented db products [ ] Abandon SQL standards efforts [ ] Unite behind one existing product (such as ) [ ] Other (specify): 13. What are you willing to do to help replace SQL? What resources can you offer? [ ] Meeting place: [ ] Programming [ ] Organizational support [ ] A language definition [ ] Other: 14. What other questions should we be asking about this subject? RETURN TO: Anti-SQL SIG 1755 E Bayshore Rd #9A Redwood City, CA 94063-4142 415/361-8141 jdr@starflight.com