An introduction to the unified database language (UDL)

  • Authors:
  • C. J. Date

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • VLDB '80 Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

UDL consists of a set of database extensions for programming languages such as COBOL and PL/I. The first description of UDL was given in [1], and detailed specifications were published in [2-6]. The present paper provides an informal introduction to the concepts and facilities of UDL as currently defined [3,4], and thus forms a replacement for the original paper [1]. UDL per se is not dependent on any particular host programming language; its constructs and functions, or some suitable subset of them, can be mapped into the concrete syntax of a variety of such languages. For definiteness, however, this paper uses one specific language, namely F1/I, as the basis for all examples.