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For systems that share enough structural and functional commonalities, reuse in schema development and data manipulation can be achieved by defining problem-oriented languages. Such languages are often called domainspecific, because they introduce powerful abstractions meaningful only within the domain of observed systems. In order to use domain-specific languages for database applications, a mapping to SQL is required. In this paper, we deal with metaprogramming concepts required for easy definition of such mappings. Using an example domain-specific language, we provide an evaluation of mapping performance.
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Kovse, J., Weber, C., Härder, T. (2004). Metaprogramming for Relational Databases. In: Atzeni, P., Chu, W., Lu, H., Zhou, S., Ling, TW. (eds) Conceptual Modeling – ER 2004. ER 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30464-7_49
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