A Source-to-Source Meta-Translation System for Relational Query Languages

Summary: Proposes a Prolog-based meta-translation system that automatically derives translators between relational query languages. Uses a universal intermediate tree representation to enable source-to-source translation from any new relational language to existing ones, drawing on PROTEUS experience. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7805
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 6.2885419e-05
Overall Rank: 4,320 | 69.95%
DOI: -

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