Procedural extensions of SQL have been in existence for many decades now. However, little is known about their magnitude of usage and their complexity in real-world workloads. Procedural code ...

PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is Oracle's proprietary extension of SQL. It allows you to combine SQL statements with procedural constructs like loops, conditional statements, ...

1) Open this file and run top-to-bottom. 2) It drops/recreates everything so it is repeatable. 0) Clean start (repeatable) DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trg_check_menu_code ON ice_cream_treat; DROP TRIGGER ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an algorithm to convert SQL and procedural languages into each other. The algorithm converts features of SQL, a declarative programming language, that are not ...

Abstract: Design models are widely spread as core artifacts in software engineering. Yet, a key problem is how to fulfill correctly these blueprint specifications when code components are developed.

Introduction: Are you struggling with complex conditional branching? To all database engineers, when developing stored procedures or functions, have you ever faced a situation where you need to branch ...

To all database engineers, when creating stored procedures or functions, you frequently implement repetitive processes (loops), don't you? Loop processing is essential when batch processing large ...