Database Programming Languages

Designing Linguistic Interfaces to an Object Database, or What do C++, SQL, and Hell Have in Common?.- Extensible Grammars for Language Specialization.- Linguistic Support for Persistent Modules and Capabilities.- A Reflective Language Mechanism for Object Manipulation.- Calculi for Bags and Their Complexity.- Bulk Data Types, a Theoretical Approach.- Some Properties of Query Languages for Bags.- Ordered Types in the AQUA Data Model.- A Functional Object Database Language.- The AQUA Data Model and Algebra.- An Abstract Object-Oriented Query Execution Language.- Efficient Optimization of Iterative Queries.- Nested Queries in Object Bases.- Thé A Database Programming Language with Integrity Constraints.- Bounded Fixpoints for Complex Objects.- Aggregate Functions, Conservative Extension, and Linear Orders.- First-Order Incremental Evaluation of Datalog Queries (Extended Abstract).- Database Programming in Transaction Logic.- F?&: Integrating Parametric and "Ad Hoc" Second Order Polymorphism (Extended Abstract).- Building an Integrated Persistent Application.- A Moose and a Fox Can Aid Scientists with Data Management Problems.- A Multidatabase Transaction Programming Language.- The Joy of Sets.- Author Index.