Compatibility

The Invantive implementation of SQL is based upon ANSI SQL, extended by aspects from popular SQL implementations such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Teradata and Microsoft SQL Server. It is topped of with Invantive-specific extensions, especially for procedural SQL, distributed SQL and distributed transactions. The basis is to implement functions such that as little as possible changes are necessary to run a SQL statement originating from another SQL implementation on Invantive UniversalSQL. For instance, to retrieve the current time you can use 'sysdate', 'now', 'getdate()' and 'sysdatetime' to name a few. The same holds for the procedural extension Invantive Procedural SQL, which reflects SQL/PSM and makes it easy to port Oracle PL/SQL or PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL statements.