Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights.

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.

The PROC SQL SELECT statement uses a CONNECTION TO component in the FROM clause to retrieve data from the ORACLE table. The Pass-Through query (in italics) is enclosed in parentheses and uses ORACLE ...