Towards practical meta-querying

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. r 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Jan Van den Bussche, Stijn Vansummeren, Gottfried Vossen
• Keywords: CORR 2002, Database, Education, Fully-fledged Meta-query Language, Standard Xml Manipulation