The Standard Interchange Language
[Thayer, Warren. "Can SIL break the computer language barrier? The Standard Interchange Language — a data exchange standard designed with wholesalers in mind — may give retail systems integration a big boost", '' Progressive Grocer'', January 1991.] is a data interchange language standard developed by the
Food Distribution Retails Systems Group for the interchange of information between software programs. It is a subset of
SQL (Structured Query Language) and acts as an interface standard for transferring data between proprietary store systems like
Direct Store Delivery
Direct may refer to:
Mathematics
* Directed set, in order theory
* Direct limit of (pre), sheaves
* Direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces
Computing
* Direct access (disambiguation), a ...
and
Point of sale. It was introduced in 1989 in the
United States
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.
References
External links
Expert: standard interchange language
Constructed languages introduced in the 1980s
1989 introductions
SQL
Data interchange standards
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