Shedding Light on Opaque Application Queries
Summary: UNMASQUE, an active-learning, non-invasive extractor, unmasks hidden SQL queries in applications by observing results from mutated/generated data. Optimizations trim overhead; evaluations on hidden/imperative variants show accurate, efficient recovery of a basal warehouse-query class. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,525 | QueryBooster: Improving SQL Performance Using Middleware Services for Human-Centered Query Rewriting | 2023 | VLDB | 5.4600815e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,108 | Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database | 2018 | VLDB | 0.00013984276 |
| 1,572 | Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00011298251 |
| 2,173 | Querying Data Provenance | 2010 | SIGMOD | 9.3676609e-05 |
| 2,717 | REGAL+: Reverse Engineering SPJA Queries | 2018 | VLDB | 8.2425675e-05 |
| 2,982 | FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.7801984e-05 |
| 3,663 | Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries | 2017 | VLDB | 6.8647221e-05 |
| 6,679 | SQUARES : A SQL Synthesizer Using Query Reverse Engineering | 2020 | VLDB | 4.9656458e-05 |
| 11,605 | UNMASQUE: A Hidden SQL Query Extractor | 2020 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,010 | QueryScope: Visualizing Queries for Repeatable Database Tuning | 2008 | VLDB | 4.8634875e-05 |
| 11,290 | Demo of QueryBooster: Supporting Middleware-Based SQL Query Rewriting as a Service | 2023 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 3,663 | Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries | 2017 | VLDB | 6.8647221e-05 |
| 3,296 | Extracting Equivalent SQL from Imperative Code in Database Applications | 2016 | SIGMOD | 7.2596583e-05 |
| 13,357 | Towards Creating Application-Specific Database Management Systems | 2015 | CIDR | - |
| 2,982 | FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.7801984e-05 |
| 12,264 | Building Disclosure Risk Aware Query Optimizers for Relational Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 5,473 | Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.4885366e-05 |
| 6,898 | Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.8925595e-05 |
| 11,605 | UNMASQUE: A Hidden SQL Query Extractor | 2020 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |