SQL:2016
SQL:2016 or ISO/IEC 9075:2016 (under the general title "Information technology – Database languages – SQL") is the eighth revision of the ISO (1987) and ANSI (1986) standard for the SQL database query language. It was formally adopted in December 2016. The standard consists of 9 parts which are described in some detail in SQL. New features. SQL:2016 introduced 44 new optional features. 22 of them belong to the JSON functionality, ten more are related to polymorphic table functions. The additions to the standard include: