Jet is the Microsoft database engine used to build Microsoft's Access DBMS. Because it is available to Microsoft software developers as a free redistributable many third party applications also use Jet as the database application powering the application. Since Jet includes Microsoft's implementation of SQL, Jet SQL has become a very widely distributed implementation of SQL.
Enhanced Features of Manifold SQL
Manifold SQL provides the following enhanced features compared to Jet SQL:
§ More powerful joins (can include multiple columns of any type, and use any Boolean expression).
§ SKIP quantifier.
§ No restrictions on types of nested joins (can nest INNER JOIN inside, for example, a LEFT JOIN and vice versa). FULL JOIN and CROSS JOIN operators.
§ No restrictions on the number of logical expressions used in the HAVING and WHERE clauses.
§ The ability to use records and lists of values in comparisons, BETWEEN AND , IN , and other operators.
§ CASE , COALESCE , NULLIF and other ANSI operators.
§ LIKEX operator and true regular expressions in queries.
§ UNIQUE operator.
§ A pivot expression used in a TRANSFORM statement is not required to return a string.
§ SPLIT BY and LEAVING clauses.
§ CAST and other ANSI functions for use in expressions .
Jet SQL Features Not Supported in Manifold SQL
Manifold SQL does not support the following features of Jet SQL:
§ Security statements, such as GRANT and REVOKE.
§ Transaction statements, such as COMMIT and ROLLBACK.
§ Procedure statements.
§ Constraints and indices (both are widely used implicitly in Manifold).
§ NULL values in tables. NULL values in queries are fully supported.
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