The International Organization for Standardization. SQL became an ISO standard in 1987, twelve months after ANSI adopted it.
Also called International Organization for Standardization.
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Each book explains ISO in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Serverless
Compute tier for single Azure SQL databases that scales automatically, pauses when idle and charges by the second. It is offered in General Purpose and Hyperscale, not Business Critical, and reserved capacity does not apply.
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- ANSI
The American National Standards Institute, which made SQL a standard in 1986, a year before ISO did. Its standard types, for example INT, DECIMAL and VARCHAR, explain why SQL looks much the same from one vendor to another, even though each has its own dialect.
Related terms
- CONVERT
Works much like
CAST, changing a value's data type in T-SQL, with the addition of an optional style number; 126, for instance, gives ISO 8601 dates. - CSF
Short for the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: optional standards, guidelines and practices that help organisations handle cyber risk. Alongside ISO, it supplies most controls in the baseline assessment Compliance Manager starts with.
- Data Protection Baseline
The ready-made assessment Compliance Manager gives every subscription, which sets your first compliance score. Most controls in it come from ISO and NIST CSF, with some taken from GDPR and FedRAMP.
- Microsoft 365 data protection baseline
Compliance Manager's starting assessment, included for all organisations at no extra cost. Its controls come mostly from NIST CSF and ISO and cover data protection and governance, and your first compliance score is calculated from it.
- Risk
As ISO 31000 puts it, how uncertainty affects objectives; that effect can be good or bad.
- supplemental storage
Extra storage attached to an existing VCF cluster, holding workloads or items like ISO images, templates and backups, as opposed to principal storage chosen while the cluster is being built. Some types, NFS 4.1 among them, are limited to this role.