Towards practical meta-querying
Databases
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We describe a meta-querying system for databases containing queries in addition to ordinary data. In the context of such databases, a meta-query is a query about queries. Representing stored queries in XML, and using the standard XML manipulation language XSLT as a sublanguage, we show that just a few features need to be added to SQL to turn it into a fully-fledged meta-query language. The good news is that these features can be directly supported by extensible database technology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0202037,
title = {Towards practical meta-querying},
author = {Jan Van den Bussche and Stijn Vansummeren and Gottfried Vossen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0202037},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Includes a new section "Experimental performance evaluation"