In some dialects, user-defined functions can contain SQL only content, in case of which inlining such a function into a calling query is much simpler for the ...

PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is Oracle's proprietary extension of SQL. It allows you to combine SQL statements with procedural constructs like loops, conditional statements, ...

Procedural extensions of SQL have been in existence for many decades now. However, little is known about their magnitude of usage and their complexity in real-world workloads. Procedural code ...

Abstract: Design models are widely spread as core artifacts in software engineering. Yet, a key problem is how to fulfill correctly these blueprint specifications when code components are developed.

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an algorithm to convert SQL and procedural languages into each other. The algorithm converts features of SQL, a declarative programming language, that are not ...