On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:59:15PM -0600, Jim Melton wrote:
> Tim,
> 
> I did not know that I was on the [email protected] distribution 
> list, but I must be because I got this message.

You're not on the list. I BCC'd you using the old email address I had.
I'm sorry for not pointing that out, or emailing you separately.

> My email addresses all appear in the signature block at the end of 
> this message, in case you want to contact me privately.

Thanks.

> I am still the maintainer of the SQL Registry, such as it is.  There 
> have been very, very few changes to the Registry in several years, 
> which suggests to me that (almost) everybody who needs to register 
> some SQL-related value and is aware of the Registry's existence has 
> probably already done it.
> 
> For your convenience, I will send you a copy of the Registry by 
> separate message (I don't want to clutter everybody's In box with the 
> file unless they actively want it).
> 
> Hope this helps,
>    Jim

It does. Thanks Jim.

Tim.

> P.S., The reason that the SQL standards archives no longer accept 
> anonymous FTP is for security reasons.  Our work is, of course, not 
> secret, and anybody interested in participating is more than welcome 
> to do so.  But, before we put the password protection, the server was 
> hacked and was being used to store and distribute pirated software!
> 
> At 4/23/2007 03:37 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> >I wonder if someone can help me with this...
> >
> >In the DBI docs it refers to the range of values that are officially
> >registered for use by the Perl DBI in the International Standards:
> >
> >=item C<TYPE>  (array-ref, read-only)
> >
> >Returns a reference to an array of integer values for each
> >column. The value indicates the data type of the corresponding column.
> >
> >The values correspond to the international standards (ANSI X3.135
> >and ISO/IEC 9075) which, in general terms, means ODBC. Driver-specific
> >types that don't exactly match standard types should generally return
> >the same values as an ODBC driver supplied by the makers of the
> >database. That might include private type numbers in ranges the vendor
> >has officially registered with the ISO working group:
> >
> >  ftp://sqlstandards.org/SC32/SQL_Registry/
> >
> >Where there's no vendor-supplied ODBC driver to be compatible with,
> >the DBI driver can use type numbers in the range that is now
> >officially reserved for use by the DBI: -9999 to -9000.
> >
> >All possible values for C<TYPE> should have at least one entry in the
> >output of the C<type_info_all> method (see L</type_info_all>).
> >
> >=cut
> >
> >The sqlstandards.org ftp server isn't accepting anonymous ftp access
> >any more and I'd like to get a copy of the current registry.
> >
> >Doesn't anyone know where I could get a copy?
> >
> >Or alternatively, could someone send me Jim Melton's current email address?
> >(He was the maintainer of the Registry back in 1998. He worked at
> >Sybase at the time and later at Oracle.)
> >
> >Tim.
> 
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