A crash course on database queries

  • Authors:
  • Jan Van den Bussche;Dirk Van Gucht;Stijn Vansummeren

  • Affiliations:
  • Hasselt University;Indiana University;Hasselt University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-sixth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Complex database queries, like programs in general, can "crash", i.e., can raise runtime errors. We want to avoid crashes without losing expressive power, or we want to correctly predict the absence of crashes. We show how concepts and techniques from programming language theory, notably type systems and reflection, can be adaptedto this end. Of course, the specific nature of database queries (asopposed to general programs), also requires some new methods, andraises new questions.