Initials of [Daniel Steffen].
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Also the name of some software: 

What: DAS
 Where: http://www.qs.co.nz/Tcl/DAS.html 
 Description: DAS - Database Abstraction Standard - is a proposal for a
        generalized Tcl interface to databases.  However, it is not obvious
        (from the web site) whether there is code being developed.
 Updated: 09/2000
 Contact: mailto:tcldev@qs.co.nz 

[PWQ] ''7 Jul 05'', Basic driver manager and driver for mysql and postgres developed. As there is no interest from the TCL community for any Standards of any description there has been no public release of code and the project has stagnated since I don't do a lot of database work currently.

[SYSTems] Why not make a tip out of this, I can think of at least one significant use case, reading from one dbms, writing to a different dbms a.k.a database conversion. I think this is a task common enough to include such an extension to Tcl main distribution. Tcl definitely need more of this stuff. 
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