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- From: csa09@keele.ac.uk (Paul Singleton)
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- Subject: Types in DB query/DML languages
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 17:28:55 GMT
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- Please can anyone refer me to a survey of academic or commercial efforts
- in the area of type schemes and type checking in database query
- languages? Has there been enough work to warrant a survey?!
-
- I am interested in application-specific types, not CHAR and NUMBER. There
- seems to me to be plenty of scope for using type schemes e.g. to check
- that a query is plausible, or to disambiguate vague queries. There seems
- to have been lots of work on types in non-database programming languages,
- and lots of neglect in the database field. Strongly-Typed SQL, anyone?!
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