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A Type-Safe Database Interface

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This paper describes the design and implementation of a type-safe, vendor-neutral Application Programming Interface (API) to interact with a database system. It reviews the current practice in this area and summarizes the problems and limitations, and shows some solutions that were developed in response. The paper explains the benefits that Ada brings to the task of writing a high level SQL API.

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  1. AdaCore, 46 rue d’Amsterdam, 75009, Paris, France

    Florian Villoing & Emmanuel Briot

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Fabrice Kordon Tullio Vardanega

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Villoing, F., Briot, E. (2008). A Type-Safe Database Interface. In: Kordon, F., Vardanega, T. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2008. Ada-Europe 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5026. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68624-8_11

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