I am very thrilled to hear that SUN is evaluating joining the SQL standard process. I feel that Peter would be the perfect candidate for this job too, given that he knows the standard inside out. My hope would be that this way the OSDB consortium (yes, I still believe) will get a liason to the SQL standards body. Also this way the much more down to earth real world approach of OSS databases to finding new syntax to add to SQL now has a chance to find its way into newer versions of the standard. It seems things are too late to ensure that SQL2008 will follow the popular LIMIT syntax, but in a way its already a huge leap forward that SQL2008 defines a way to get LIMIT/OFFSET without having to use some convoluted subquery. Chalk this one up as a new potential that came about with the acquisition of MySQL by SUN.

This sounds great! I always rooted for Peter to join the standards process.

Do you know where we can go vote for his entry? :-)