rPref (version 0.3)

show.query: Show preference in usual Query Languages

Description

For a given preference this shows the PREFERRING clause of a database query in different SQL dialects which support preferences.

Usage

show.query(p, dialect = "EXASOL")

Arguments

p

A preference

dialect

The preference query dialect, which determines the Syntax of the returned query. This has to be one of the following: [object Object],[object Object]

Details

There are few database systems supporting Skyline queries. A Skyline query consists of a usual SQL query followed by a PREFERRING-clause (in some rarely used dialects also SKYLINE OF). For example consider a database table r(a,b). The preference selection psel(r, low(a) * high(b)) can be expressed by (in the Exasol dialect): SELECT * FROM r PREFERRING LOW a PLUS HIGH b The show.query function generates just the PREFERRING-clause, i.e. show.query(low(a) * high(b)) returns PREFERRING LOW a PLUS HIGH b As usual in SQL queries all keywords are not case sensitive, i.e. PLUS or plus does not make any difference.

References

W. Kiessling, M. Endres, F. Wenzel (2011): The Preference SQL System - An Overview. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Vol. 34 No. 3, pages 12-19.

Examples

show.query(low(a) * high(b))

show.query(low(a) * high(b), dialect = 'Preference SQL')