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

Summary: PROLOG-based meta-translator that generates translators for newly specified relational query languages, rather than hand-coding pairwise mappings. Uses a universal intermediate query tree to enable source-to-source translation across heterogeneous DBMSs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7996
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
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Authors

1. D.I. Howells (University College Cardiff)
2. N.J. Fiddian (University College Cardiff)
3. W.A. Gray (University College Cardiff)

BibTeX Citation

@article{howells_vldb87,
        title = {{A Source-to-Source Meta-Translation System for Relational Query Languages}},
        author = {Howells, D.I. and Fiddian, N.J. and Gray, W.A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        pages = {227},
        year = {1987}
}

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