<s>
SQL/OLB	B-Language
,	O
or	O
Object	O
Language	O
Bindings	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
standard	O
for	O
embedding	O
SQL	B-Language
in	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
commonly	O
known	O
by	O
its	O
prior	O
name	O
as	O
SQLJ	B-Language
(	O
part	O
0	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Besides	O
describing	O
the	O
syntax	O
and	O
semantics	O
of	O
SQLJ	B-Language
,	O
which	O
are	O
typically	O
given	O
relative	O
to	O
JDBC	B-Language
,	O
the	O
standard	O
also	O
describes	O
mechanisms	O
to	O
ensure	O
binary	O
portability	O
of	O
SQLJ	B-Language
applications	O
,	O
and	O
specifies	O
various	O
Java	B-Language
packages	O
and	O
their	O
contained	O
classes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SQL/OLB	B-Language
was	O
informally	O
known	O
as	O
"	O
SQLJ	B-Language
part	O
0	O
"	O
before	O
standardization	O
,	O
which	O
first	O
occurred	O
under	O
the	O
aegis	O
of	O
ANSI	O
in	O
1998	O
and	O
then	O
ISO	O
in	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
the	O
latter	O
was	O
published	O
after	O
the	O
bulk	O
of	O
SQL:1999	B-Language
,	O
officially	O
it	O
was	O
"	O
part	O
10	O
"	O
of	O
that	O
standarda	O
convention	O
that	O
was	O
maintained	O
for	O
subsequent	O
ISO	O
SQL	B-Language
standards	O
,	O
including	O
the	O
current	O
one	O
,	O
SQL:2011	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
some	O
(	O
possibly	O
outdated	O
)	O
examples	O
,	O
see	O
the	O
article	O
on	O
SQLJ	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Both	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
8i	I-General_Concept
and	O
IBM	B-Application
DB2	I-Application
introduced	O
support	O
around	O
1999	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Oracle	B-General_Concept
12c	O
claims	O
conformance	O
with	O
SQL/OLB:1999	O
,	O
but	O
not	O
with	O
the	O
newer	O
SQL/OLB:2008	O
.	O
</s>
