Editing Call Level Interface (section)

==History==

The work with the Call Level Interface began in a subcommittee of the US-based [[SQL Access Group]] (SAG)<ref>{{cite web|title=Call-Level Interface|url=http://foldoc.org/Call-Level+Interface|website=FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing|publisher=FOLDOC|accessdate=13 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/call-level+interface |title=Call-level interface {{!}} Define Call-level interface at Dictionary.com |website=dictionary.reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101113639/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/call-level+interface |archive-date=2013-01-01}} </ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CLI Definition from PC Magazine Encyclopedia|url=https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/39768/cli|publisher=PC Mag|accessdate=13 December 2014|quote=A database programming interface from the SQL Access Group (SAG), an SQL membership organization.}}</ref> In 1992, it was initially published and marketed as [[Microsoft]]'s ODBC API. The CLI specification was submitted as to the ISO and [[American National Standards Institute]] (ANSI) standards committees in 1993. The standard has the book number {{ISBN|1-85912-081-4}} and the internal document number is C451.

ISO SQL/CLI is an addendum to 1992 SQL standard ([[SQL-92]]). It was completed as ISO standard ISO/IEC 9075-3:1995 Information technology—Database languages—SQL—Part 3: Call-Level Interface (SQL/CLI).

In the fourth quarter of 1994, control over the standard was transferred to the [[X/Open]] Company, which significantly expanded and updated it. The X/Open CLI interface is a superset of the ISO SQL CLI.

SQL/CLI remains available in later editions such as ISO/IEC 9075-3:2003.