# Patent

## Title
System and method for processing an SQL query made against a relational database

## Abstract

A system and method for processing an SQL query made against a relational database is disclosed. In one example embodiment, the method includes receiving the SQL query made against the relational database. Further, the received SQL query is parsed to obtain each operator and associated one or more operands and sequence of execution of the operators. Furthermore, a closure-friendly operator is dynamically generated for each operator and the associated one or more operands in the received SQL query. In addition, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators are executed based on the obtained sequence of execution of the operators.

## Background
RELATED APPLICATIONS
Benefit is claimed to a U.S. Provisional application Ser. No. 61/468,581 entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN SQL QUERY MADE AGAINST A RELATIONAL DATABASE” by Wipro Limited filed on Mar. 29, 2011, which is herein incorporated in its entirety by reference for all purposes.


TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates generally to database management, and more particularly to an SQL (structured query language) query made against a relational database.
BACKGROUND
Generally, an SQL (structured query language) query processor in a relational database management system (RDBMS) processes an SQL query by using a composition of universal parameterized functions to implement different clauses of the SQL query, which are essentially operators such as, FROM (F), WHERE (W), GROUP BY (G) and SELECT (L). Further, the universal parameterized functions take input parameters based on their implementation. For example, the universal parameterized function corresponding to the F operator takes an array of relations as input parameter and the universal parameterized function corresponding to the W operator takes a relation and a filter condition as input parameters.
Existing SQL query processors model the F, W, G and L operators such that a single universal parameterized function can support any set of input parameters used with its corresponding SQL clauses. For example, the same W operator can be used with any filter condition such as, a>5, a<4 and so on, over any relational database. Thus, the universal parameterized functions are context independent. They are implementation friendly and promote code reuse, but they are not congruent with formal closure, a fundamental property of SQL queries or of relational data under SQL queries. As a result, using universal parameterized functions does not aid formal verification of SQL queries. The incongruence of the universal parameterized functions with formal closure property results in inefficient traceability of the SQL queries. Also, the above described SQL query process does not provide type safety over the input parameters and output.
SUMMARY
A system and method for processing an SQL query made against a relational database is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, the SQL query made against the relational database is received. Further, the received SQL query is parsed to obtain each operator and associated one or more operands and sequence of execution of the operators. Furthermore, a closure-friendly operator is dynamically generated for each operator and the associated one or more operands in the received SQL query. In addition, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators are executed based on the obtained sequence of execution of the operators.
Also in this aspect of the present invention, each dynamically generated closure-friendly operator is grouped into possibly overlapping patterns. Further, the impact of each pattern on a queried relational database and a database schema is classified. Furthermore, the received SQL query is analyzed using partitions of the closure-friendly operators. In addition, the received SQL query is traced/debugged based on the analysis.
According to another aspect of the present subject matter, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for processing the SQL query made against the relational database, having instructions that, when executed by a computing device causes the computing device to perform the method described above.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention, a system for processing the SQL query made against the relational database includes one or more clients, a network and a relational database. Further, a computer is coupled to the one or more clients and the relational database via the network. Furthermore, the computer includes a processor and memory. The memory is operatively coupled to the processor. In addition, the computer includes a database management system including a closure-friendly SQL query processor residing in the memory.
In one embodiment, the closure-friendly SQL query processor receives the SQL query made against the relational database from one or more clients via the network. Further, the closure-friendly SQL query processor parses the received SQL query to obtain each operator and the associated one or more operands and the sequence of execution of the operators. Furthermore, the closure-friendly SQL query processor dynamically generates the closure-friendly operator for each operator and the associated one or more operands in the received SQL query. Also, the closure-friendly SQL query processor executes the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators based on the obtained sequence of execution of the operators.
The methods and systems disclosed herein may be implemented in any means or combination of means for achieving various aspects, and other features will be apparent from the accompanying drawings and from the detailed description that follows.



BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Various embodiments are described herein with reference to the drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 illustrates a process flow of a method for processing an SQL query made against a relational database, according to one embodiment;
FIG. 2 is an exemplary pseudo-code illustrating dynamically generated closure-friendly operators for an SQL query, according to one embodiment;
FIG. 3A is a state diagram illustrating an SQL query evaluated over a database D, according to one embodiment;
FIG. 3B illustrates a table including operator patterns over the database D, such as the one shown in FIG. 3A, according to one embodiment;
FIG. 4A is another state diagram illustrating an SQL query evaluated over a database schema S, according to one embodiment;
FIG. 4B illustrates a table including operator patterns over the database schema S, such as the one shown in FIG. 4A, according to one embodiment;
FIG. 5 is a generalized state diagram illustrating an SQL query evaluated over a set of database schemas, according to one embodiment;
FIG. 6 is a table illustrating operator patterns over the database D and its database schema S, according to one embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a table illustrating extended operator patterns over a database DU, a database D+ and a database schema SU, according to one embodiment; and
FIG. 8 illustrates a block diagram of a networked computer system incorporating a database management system for processing an SQL query made against the relational database, such as those shown in FIG. 1, according to one embodiment;



The drawings described herein are for illustration purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention in any way.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
A system and method for processing an SQL query made against a relational database is disclosed. In the following detailed description of the embodiments of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings that form a part hereof, and in which are shown by way of illustration specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention, and it is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and that changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims.
The terms “operator” and “function” are used interchangeably throughout the document.
FIG. 1 illustrates a flow diagram 100 of an exemplary computer-implemented method for processing an SQL query made against a relational database, according to one embodiment. At block 102, the SQL query made against the relational database is received. At block 104, the received SQL query is parsed to obtain each operator and associated one or more operands and sequence of execution of the operators. Exemplary operators include FROM (F), WHERE (W), GROUP BY (G), SELECT (L) and the like. Exemplary operands include parameters such as filter criteria, tables and the like. Generally, F, W, G and L operators are executed in the aforesaid sequence. In this embodiment, each of the F, W, G and L operator is treated as a potentially distinct operator. Also in this embodiment, each SQL query is treated as a potentially distinct operator.
At block 106, a closure-friendly operator is dynamically generated for each operator and the associated one or more operands in the received SQL query. This is explained in more detail with reference to FIG. 2. Exemplary pseudo-codes for possible dynamically generated closure-friendly operators for queries Q1 “SELECT A FROM R WHERE A>5” and Q2 “SELECT A, B FROM R1, R2 WHERE A>B” are included in Appendix “A” and Appendix “B”, respectively. In this embodiment, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators aid closure of the relational database under SQL queries. This is explained in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3A, 4A and 5.
In one embodiment, at block 108, after the closure-friendly operator is dynamically generated for each operator and the associated one or more operands, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators are executed based on the obtained sequence of execution of the operators. For example, an SQL query “SELECT*FROM R WHERE a>5” is executed by dynamically generating closure-friendly operators for the L, F and W operators with the associated operands “*”, “R” and “a>5”, respectively. Initially, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operator corresponding to the F operator computes a cross product of the relation R over the input and generates a table. Further, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operator corresponding to the W operator applies the operand “a>5”, which is a filter criterion, to the table generated by the F operator and generates an intermediate table. Furthermore, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operator corresponding to the L operator generates a table which is the result of the SQL query.
In addition in this embodiment, the closure-friendly operator is dynamically generated for each operator and the associated one or more operands possibly using optimization techniques. Exemplary optimization techniques include just-in-time (JIT) compilation, code caching, code libraries, lazy evaluation and the like. The optimization techniques can also include traditional optimization techniques, such as join order, push selects down and the like. Further, the optimization techniques can be implemented using functional techniques, procedural techniques, object oriented techniques and so on. For example, the JIT compilation technique is used to dynamically generate native codes for the closure-friendly operators. Further, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators are cached using the code caching technique. Furthermore, the cached closure-friendly operators may be reused when executing the received SQL query which may benefit from the cached closure-friendly operators. In one embodiment, generics can be employed to ease the process of dynamically generating the closure-friendly operators and to obtain type safety.
Further as shown in FIG. 1, at block 114, the received SQL query is analyzed using partitions of the closure-friendly operators. At block 116, the received SQL query is traced/debugged based on the analysis.
In another embodiment, at block 110, after the closure-friendly operators are dynamically generated for each operator and the associated one or more operands, each dynamically generated closure-friendly operator is grouped into possibly overlapping patterns. At block 112, the impact of each pattern on the queried relational database and the database schema is classified. This is explained in more detail with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. At block 114, the received SQL query is analyzed using partitions of the closure-friendly operators. At block 116, the received SQL query is traced/debugged based on the analysis.
Now, referring to FIG. 2, an exemplary pseudo-code illustrates dynamically generated closure-friendly operators for an SQL query, according to one embodiment. Particularly, FIG. 2 illustrates relevant portions of the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators for an SQL query Q3 “SELECT A FROM R WHERE A>5”. As shown in FIG. 2, Q3 includes clauses “SELECT A”, “FROM R” and “WHERE A>5”. The arrow 202, shown in FIG. 2, points to a portion of the pseudo-code dynamically generated for the operand “R” associated with the FROM operator in Q3. Further, the arrow 204, shown in FIG. 2, points to a portion of the pseudo-code dynamically generated for the operand “A>5” associated with the WHERE operator in Q3.
Now, referring to FIG. 3A, a state diagram 300A illustrates an SQL query evaluated over a database D, according to one embodiment. As shown, two additional databases, a database D+ and a database DU, are defined over the database D. The database D+ includes every possible instance of the database D. Further, the database D+ also includes a table without any rows. The database DU is a universal database which includes all possible databases that can be obtained in a typical SQL query.
Further as shown in FIG. 3A, the state diagram 300A includes three possible states. The possible states include a state D, a state (D+-D) and a state (DU-D+). The state D includes the database D. The state (D+-D) includes the database D+ without any data contained in the database D. The state (DU-D+) includes the database DU without any data contained in the database D. Furthermore, the state diagram 300A is illustrated using unified modeling language (UML) syntax. As shown in FIG. 3A, 320 refers to a start state. In addition as shown in FIG. 3A, ε322 represents a state transition from the start state 320 to the state D. However, while describing state transitions in the state diagram 300A, the state D is considered as the start state. Also, FIG. 3A illustrates state transitions corresponding to F, W, G, L, UNION (U), MINUS (M), INTERSECT (I) and DIVIDE (D) operators in the SQL query.
Referring now to FIG. 3B, a table 300B shows the state transitions corresponding to FWGL operators. Particularly, table 300B shows operator patterns over the database D. In table 300B, ‘X’ indicates an applicability of the operator pattern to a specific input-output combination. Also in table 300B, ‘-’ indicates an inapplicability of the operator pattern to a specific input-output combination. In addition, the state transitions for U, M, and I operators are same as those for the W operator and the state transitions for the D operator are same as those for the L operator. The state transitions illustrated in the state diagram 300A are obtained using the table 300B.
Referring back to FIG. 3A, the operators causing the state transitions are labeled with one or two suffix characters to denote a source state and a destination state. The operators labeled with one suffix character indicate a transition from a state to itself. The operators labeled with two suffix characters indicate transition between distinct states.
Further as shown in FIG. 3A, a transition (FWGLUMID)D 302 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on data from the state D and produces a data in the state D. Further, a transition (FWGLUMID)D+ 304 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on data from the state D and produces a data in the state (D+-D). In addition, a transition (FGLD)DU 306 represents the FGLD operators that operate on data from the state D and produces a data in the state (DU-D+).
Furthermore as shown in FIG. 3A, a transition (FWGLUMID)+ 308 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operates on data from the state (D+-D) and produces a data in the state (D+-D). In addition, a transition (FWGLUMID)+D 310 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on data from the state (D+-D) and produces a data in the state D. Also, a transition (FGLD)+U 312 represents the FGLD operators that operate on data from the state (D+-D) and produces a data in the state (DU-D+).
In addition as shown in FIG. 3A, a transition (FWGLUMID)U 314 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on data from the state (DU-D+) and produces a data in the state (DU-D+). Further, a transition (FGLD)UD 316 represents the FGLD operators that operate on data from the state (DU-D+) and produces a data in the state D. Furthermore, a transition (FGLD)U+ 318 represents the FGLD operators that operate on data from the state (DU-D+) and produces a data in the state (D+-D).
Also, the state diagram 300A is used to trace progression of the SQL query without having to the SQL query. For example, an SQL query Q4 “SELECT*FROM R” starts executing at the state D. As shown in FIG. 3A, F and L operators operating on data from the state D, produces a data in the state D. Thus, the state transitions for the SQL query Q4 are D, D and D. As a result, the SQL query Q4 starts executing from the state D and ends at the state D. However, it is not always possible to trace the data transitions for an SQL query without executing the SQL query. However, database schema transitions of the SQL query can be traced without having to execute the SQL query. This is explained in more detail with reference to FIGS. 4A and 4B.
Now, referring to FIG. 4A, which illustrates another state diagram 400A of an SQL query evaluated over a database schema S, according to one embodiment. As shown, an additional database schema is defined over the database schema S. The additional database schema is a universal database schema SU. SU includes all possible database schemas that can be obtained in a typical SQL query. Further as shown, the state diagram 400A includes two possible states, a state S and a state (SU-S). The state S includes the database schema S and the state (SU-S) includes the universal database schema SU without any schema contained in database schema S. Furthermore, as in state diagram 300A shown in FIG. 3A, the state diagram 400A is also illustrated using the UML syntax. As shown in FIG. 4A, 410 refers to a start state. In addition as shown in FIG. 4A, ε412 represents a state transition from the start state 410 to the state S. However, while describing state transitions in the state diagram 400A, the state S is considered as the start state. Also, FIG. 4A illustrates the state transitions corresponding to F, W, G, L, U, M, I and D operators in the SQL query.
Referring now to FIG. 4B, a table 400B shows the state transitions corresponding to FWGL operators. Particularly, table 400B shows operator patterns over the database schema S. In table 400B, ‘X’ indicates the applicability of the operator pattern to the specific input-output combination. Also in table 400B, ‘-’ indicates inapplicability of the operator pattern to the specific input-output combination. In addition, the state transitions for U, M, and I operators are same as those for W operator and the state transitions for the D operator are same as those for L operator. The state transitions illustrated in the state diagram 400A are obtained using the table 400B.
Referring back to FIG. 4A, the operators causing the state transitions are labeled with one or two suffix characters to denote a source state and a destination state. The operators labeled with one suffix character indicate a transition from a state to itself. The operators labeled with two suffix characters indicate transition between distinct states.
Further as shown in FIG. 4A, a transition (FWGLUMID)S 402 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on a database schema from the state S and produces a database schema in the state S. Furthermore, a transition (FGLD)SU 404 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S and produces a database schema in the state (SU-S).
In addition as shown in FIG. 4A, a transition (FWGLUMID)U 406 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on a database schema from the state (SU-S) and produces a database schema in the state (SU-S). Also, a transition (FGLD)US 408 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state (SU-S) and produces a database schema in the state S.
Moreover, the state diagram 400A is used to trace progression of the SQL query. For example, the SQL query Q4 “SELECT*FROM R” starts executing at the state S. As shown in FIG. 4A, F and L operators operating on a database schema from the state S, produces a database schema in the state S. Thus, the state transitions for the SQL query Q4 are S, S and S. As a result, the SQL query Q4 starts executing from the state S and ends at the state S. In addition, the database schema transitions are used to obtain the possible data transitions for the SQL query. An exemplary procedure for obtaining possible data transitions for an SQL query from the database schema transitions is included in Appendix “C”.
Now, referring to FIG. 5, a generalized state diagram 500 illustrates an SQL query evaluated over a set of database schemas, according to one embodiment. As shown, the state diagram 500 is used to analyze, debug and trace SQL queries beyond closure. Further, the state diagram 500 illustrates state transitions over a set of database schemas S0, S1, S2 and (SU-USi), where, i=0 . . . 2. The database schema (SU-USi) includes the universal database schema without any database schema contained in any of the database schemas S0, S1 and S2. Furthermore, the state diagram 500 includes 4 possible states, a state S0, a state S1, a state S2 and a state (SU-USi). In addition, the state diagram 500 partitions the FWGLUMID operators based on their ability to map results among the database schemas S0, S1, S2 and (SU-USi).
Similar to state diagrams 300A and 400A in FIGS. 3A and 4A, the state diagram 500 is also based on UML syntax. As shown in FIG. 5, 502 refers to a start state. In addition as shown in FIG. 5, ε504 represents a state transition from the start state 502 to the state S0. However, while describing the state transitions in the state diagram 500, the state S0 is considered as the start state. Also in the state diagram 500, the operators causing the state transitions are labeled with one or two suffix characters to denote a source state and a destination state. The operators labeled with one suffix character indicate a transition from a state to itself. The operators labeled with two suffix characters indicate transition between distinct states
As shown in FIG. 5, a transition (FWGLUMID)0 506 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on a database schema from the state S0 and produces a database schema in the state S0. Further, a transition (FGLD)01 508 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S0 and produces a database schema in the state S1. Furthermore, a transition (FGLD)02 510 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S0 and produces a database schema in the state S2. In addition, a transition (FGLD)0U 512 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S0 and produce a database schema in the state (SU-USi).
Further as shown in FIG. 5, a transition (FWGLUMID)1 514 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on a database schema from the state S1 and produces a database schema in the state S1. Furthermore, a transition (FGLD)10 516 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S1 and produces a database schema in the state S0. In addition, a transition (FGLD)12 518 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S1 and produces a database schema in the state S2. Also, a transition (FGLD)1U 520 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S1 and produce a database schema in the state (SU-USi).
Furthermore as shown in FIG. 5, a transition (FWGLUMID)2 522 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on a database schema from the state S2 and produces a database schema in the state S2. In addition, a transition (FGLD)20 524 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S2 and produces a database schema in the state S0. Also, a transition (FGLD)21 526 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S2 and produces a database schema in the state S1. Moreover, a transition (FGLD)2U 528 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state S2 and produce a database schema in the state (SU-USi).
In addition as shown in FIG. 5, a transition (FWGLUMID)U 530 represents the FWGLUMID operators that operate on a database schema from the state (SU-USi) and produces a database schema in the state (SU-USi). Further, a transition (FGLD)U0 532 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state (SU-USi) and produces a database schema in the state S0. Furthermore, a transition (FGLD)U1 534 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state (SU-USi) and produces a database schema in the state S1. Also, a transition (FGLD)U2 536 represents the FGLD operators that operate on a database schema from the state (SU-USi) and produces a database schema in the state S2.
Referring now to FIG. 6, a table 600 illustrates operator patterns over the database D and the database schema S, according to one embodiment. In table 600, the database D+ excludes the database D, the database DU excludes the database D+ and the database schema SU excludes the database schema S. As shown in table 600, column 602 includes the operators used in an SQL query and column 604 includes different operator patterns for each operator in column 602. Further, column 606 shows whether the database D and the database schema S is closed under each operator pattern in column 604. Also, column 608 shows remarks for each operator pattern in column 604. For example, the first row in table 600 illustrates that the database D is closed under the FROM operator when the input contains only one relation.
Referring now to FIG. 7, a table 700 illustrates extended operator patterns over the database DU, the database D+ and the database schema SU, according to one embodiment. As shown In table 700, the database D+ excludes the database D, the database DU excludes the database D+ and the database schema SU excludes the database schema S. Further as shown in table 700, column 702 includes the operators used in an SQL query and column 704 includes different operator patterns for each operator in column 702. Furthermore as shown in table 700, column 706 shows remarks for each operator pattern in column 704. For example, the first row in table 700 illustrates that the FROM operator operated on data from database D+ produces data in database D when the input has more than one relation.
Now, referring to FIG. 8, a block diagram of a networked computer system 800 incorporating a database management system (DBMS) 812 is illustrated, according to one embodiment. As shown in FIG. 8, the networked computer system 800 includes one or more clients 802A-N, a network 804, a computer 806, a display 818 and a mass storage 820. Further as shown in FIG. 8, the mass storage 820 includes a relational database 822. In this embodiment, the computer 806 is coupled to the clients 802A-N and the relational database 822 via the network 804. Furthermore as shown in FIG. 8, the computer 806 includes a processor 808 operatively coupled to memory 810. In addition as shown in FIG. 8, the memory 810 includes the DBMS 812 and an operating system 816. The DBMS 812 further includes a closure-friendly SQL query processor 814 residing in the memory 810.
In operation, the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814 receives an SQL query made against the relational database 822 from one or more clients 802A-N via the network 804. Further, the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814 parses the received SQL query to obtain each operator and associated one or more operands and sequence of execution of the operators. Furthermore, the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814 dynamically generates the closure-friendly operator for each operator and associated operands in the received SQL query. This is explained in detail with reference to FIG. 2.
In this embodiment, the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814 dynamically generates the closure-friendly operator for each operator and the associated one or more operands possibly using optimization techniques. Exemplary optimization techniques include just-in-time compilation, code caching, code libraries, lazy evaluation and the like. This is explained in more detail with reference to FIG. 1. In addition, the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814 executes the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators based on the obtained sequence of execution of the operators.
Further in this embodiment, each dynamically generated closure-friendly operator is grouped into possibly overlapping patterns by the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814. Furthermore, the impact of each pattern on the queried relational database and the database schema is classified by the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814. This is explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. Also, the received SQL query is analyzed by the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814 using partitions of the closure-friendly operators. Moreover, the received SQL query is traced/debugged, by the closure-friendly SQL query processor 814, based on the analysis.
In various embodiments, the methods and systems described in FIGS. 1 through 8 proposes a closure-friendly SQL query processor which is closer to formalism and easily verifiable. The closure-friendly operators generated by the closure-friendly SQL query processor allow the relational databases to be closed under a SQL query. Also, the closure-friendly operators aid analysis, debugging and tracing of the SQL query. In addition, the closure-friendly SQL query processor restores the ability to perform mathematical analysis in the implementation.
Although the present embodiments have been described with reference to specific example embodiments, it will be evident that various modifications and changes may be made to these embodiments without departing from the broader scope of the various embodiments. Furthermore, the various devices, modules, analyzers, generators, and the like described herein may be enabled and operated using hardware circuitry, for example, complementary metal oxide semiconductor based logic circuitry, firmware, software and/or any combination of hardware, firmware, and/or software embodied in a machine readable medium. For example, the various electrical structures and methods may be embodied using transistors, logic gates, and electrical circuits, such as an application specific integrated circuit.









APPENDIX A









//Functions specific to Query Q1



Relation Q1_F (Relation[ ] relations)



//this function can be optimized away



return relations[0]



Relation Q1_W (Relation R)



Relation result ← Empty instance of Schema (R)



for each Row r in R









if r[A] > 5









Add r to result









return result



Relation Q1_L (Relation R)



Relation result ← Empty



//create result schema



Add schema of R[“A”] to Schema(result)



//add rows to result relation



for each Row r in R









Row r′ ← Empty



r′[“A”] ← r[“A”]



Add r′ to result









return result



















APPENDIX B









//Functions specific to Q2



Relation Q2_F (Relation[ ] relations)



//as written, this function is not query-specific



//but it can be made more specific by exploiting



//the schema and bindings of the input relations



return relations[0] * relations[1]



Relation Q2_W (Relation R)



Relation result ← Empty instance of Schema(R)



for each Row r in R









if r[A] > r[B]









Add r to result









return result



Relation Q2_L (Relation R)



Relation result ← Empty



//create result schema



Add schema of R[“A”] to Schema(result)



Add schema of R[“B”] to Schema(result)



//add rows to result relation



for each Row r in R









Row r′ ← Empty



r′[“A”] ← r[“A”]



r′[“B”] ← r[“B”]



Add r′ to result









return result



















APPENDIX C









SchemaStateAndDataStates (Database D, Operator θ)



S ← Schema(D)



s′ ← schema of the result of θ over D



if s′   S, schema state is S, possible data states are D and D+



else schema state is SU, data state is DU.

## Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for processing relational database queries having instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform steps comprising:
receiving a SQL query made against a relational database;
parsing the SQL query to obtain a plurality of operators, one or more operands and a sequence of execution of the plurality of operators;
dynamically generating a closure-friendly operator for each of the plurality of operators and the one or more operands in the SQL query; and
executing the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators based on the obtained sequence of execution of the plurality of operators.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the dynamically generating further comprises dynamically generating the closure-friendly operator for each of the plurality of operators and the one or more operands using one or more optimization techniques.

3. The medium of claim 2, wherein the one or more optimization techniques are selected from just-in-time compilation, code caching, code libraries, or lazy evaluation.

4. The medium of claim 1, further comprising:
grouping each dynamically generated closure-friendly operator into possibly overlapping patterns; and
classifying an impact of each of the possibly overlapping patterns on a queried relational database and a database schema.

5. The medium of claim 4, further comprising:
analyzing the SQL query using one or more partitions of the closure-friendly operators; and
tracing/debugging the SQL query based on the analysis.

6. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor coupled to a memory and configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory, comprising:
receiving a SQL query made against a relational database;
parsing the SQL query to obtain a plurality of operators, one or more operands and a sequence of execution of the plurality of operators;
dynamically generating a closure-friendly operator for each of the plurality of operators and the one or more operands in the SQL query; and
executing the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators based on the obtained sequence of execution of the plurality of operators.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the dynamically generating further comprises dynamically generating the closure-friendly operator for each of the plurality of operators and the one or more operands using one or more optimization techniques.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the one or more optimization techniques are selected from just-in-time compilation, code caching, code libraries, or lazy evaluation.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the processor coupled to the memory is further configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory further comprising:
grouping each dynamically generated closure-friendly operator into possibly overlapping patterns; and
classifying an impact of each of the possibly overlapping patterns on a queried relational database and a database schema.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor coupled to the memory is further configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory further comprising:
analyzing the SQL query using one or more partitions of the closure-friendly operators; and
tracing/debugging the SQL query based on the analysis.

11. A method for processing relational database queries, comprising:
receiving, with a query processing computing device, a SQL query made against a relational database;
parsing, with the query processing computing device, the SQL query to obtain a plurality of operators, one or more operands and a sequence of execution of the plurality of operators;
dynamically generating, with the query processing computing device, a closure-friendly operator for each of the plurality of operators and the one or more operands in the SQL query; and
executing, with the query processing computing device, the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators based on the obtained sequence of execution of the plurality of operators.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the dynamically generating further comprises dynamically generating the closure-friendly operator for each of the plurality of operators and the one or more operands using one or more optimization techniques.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more optimization techniques are selected from just-in-time compilation, code caching, code libraries, or lazy evaluation.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising
grouping, with the query processing computing device, each dynamically generated closure-friendly operator into possibly overlapping patterns; and
classifying, with the query processing computing device, an impact of each of the possibly overlapping patterns on a queried relational database and a database schema.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:
analyzing, with the query processing computing device, the SQL query using one or more partitions of the closure-friendly operators; and
tracing/debugging, with the query processing computing device, the SQL query based on the analysis.