Procedural Extensions of SQL: Understanding their usage in the wild
Summary: Empirical study of procedural SQL usage across workloads—procedures, UDFs, triggers—reveals magnitude and complexity. SQL-ProcBench: a real-workload benchmark for procedural SQL; cross-engine experiments expose research challenges and opportunities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Surabhi Gupta (Microsoft)
- 2. Karthik Ramachandra (Microsoft Azure Data (SQL))
BibTeX Citation
@article{gupta_vldb21,
title = {{Procedural Extensions of SQL: Understanding their usage in the wild}},
author = {Gupta, Surabhi and Ramachandra, Karthik},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '21},
volume = {14},
number = {8},
pages = {1378--1391},
doi = {10.14778/3457390.3457402},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3457390.3457402},
year = {2021}
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