We are not talking about bottom-up, down-top or middle-out .......The point is that we need a query language that is really standard & universal, we can use it in any languages such as Java, VB, C++, ect, we can use it in various environments such as inside applications, consoles, db clients (e.g. SQL*Plus), it should be portable between people (common language) so that DBA understands what develo