In fact, an application query need not even be SQL, or it may be a specialized derivative of SQL, e.g. for document or image queries, designed for specific DBMSs.
In order to pass JDBC compliance tests and to be called "JDBC COMPLIANT " we require that a driver support at least ANSI SQL-2 Entry Level. This gives applications that want wide portability a guaranteed least common denominator. We believe ANSI SQL-2 Entry Level is reasonably powerful and is reasonably widely supported today.
* 为了通过JDBC兼容的测试,并且能够被称为JDBC兼容,我们要求一个驱动至少支持ANSI SQL-2的标准。这使得那些需要广泛移植性的程序获得一个最小的分母(这句话的原文是:This gives applications that want wide portability a guaranteed least common denominator.)。我们相信ANSI SQL-2是足够强大的,并且是得到足够支持的。