UNMASQUE: A Hidden SQL Query Extractor

Summary: UNMASQUE is a non-invasive SQL-query extractor that reverse engineers candidate queries yielding a given result. Platform independence via data mutation and generation; DB shrunk to a few rows to cut overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12136
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 11,609 | 19.32%
DOI: 10.14778/3415478.3415481

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Authors

1. Kapil Khurana
2. Jayant R. Haritsa

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8,960	Shedding Light on Opaque Application Queries	2021	SIGMOD	4.4173276e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,717	REGAL+: Reverse Engineering SPJA Queries	2018	VLDB	8.2370772e-05

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