Where can I find the SQL-89 standard?

Question

This question is different but similar to this request looking for SQL-86.

SQL 1989 is almost 30 years old. Is this spec freely available anywhere. The standard does not have a Wikipage or the like?

The spec goes by

• ANSI X3.135-1989 Database Language - SQL With Integrity Enhancements
• ISO 9075-1989
• SQL-1989

The need for it came up while researching the question, Does the SQL-1992 standard restrict naming identifiers to 18 characters?

Answer 1

This one looks like the document you are after (although French, not English, and not free) https://iteh.it/catalog/standards/iso/7c7fa915-f99f-4ce9-8aa4-0e896d89ed84/iso-iec-9075-1989

Or this one seems to have English and Russian versions: https://gostperevod.com/st-iso-iec-9075-1989.html

Answer 2

Extrapolating from the accepted answer of the related question seeking SQL-86, we can craft the following query -

• https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22National+Bureau+of+Standards%22+AND+subject%3A%22Public+administration+--+Data+processing%22&and[]=year%3A%221990%22&and[]=year%3A%221989%22&and[]=year%3A%221988%22&sort=-date

...the constituent parts being

• creator="National Bureau of Standards"
• subject="Public administration -- Data processing"
• year IN (1988,1989,1990)
• order by date_published descending

Sadly, SQL-89 is not found at this time, but a partial upload from 1990 appears to be available at https://archive.org/details/federalinformati1271nati. Hopefully the given query string will also capture the SQL-89 standard if and when it's indexed at archive.org

Answer 3

This what you are looking for?

Information Systems - Database Language - SQL (includes ANSI X3.168-1989) (formerly ANSI X3.135-1992 (R1998)) Defines the data structures and basic operations on SQL-data. Provides functional capabilities for creating, accessing, maintaining, controlling, and protecting SQL-data.