Download or read book Advances in Database Programming Languages written by François Bancilhon and published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This book was released on 1990 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume describes current attempts to understand and to develop database programming languages. Earlier efforts to combine database and programming-language technologies involved coupling one system with another (such as SQL embedded in C) or combining functionalities in one system (as in Pascal R). The most recent work, on which this book focuses, develops integrated systems from a new, integrated technology. It shows, for example, how large knowledge-based systems, using this new technology, provide a uniform way of programming, storing, and managing data.