Ah yes, I see. Thanks!

On Monday, December 9, 2013 6:00:19 PM UTC-8, Jamie Brandon wrote:
>
> Both the denormalised view and the query on it are represented as LINQ 
> queries. The compiler then optimises the composition of the two and returns 
> something that acts directly on the database without building up an 
> intermediate representation. It seems to me that the same technique should 
> work for a normalised view over a denormalised database.
>
>
> On 10 December 2013 01:57, Jamie Brandon 
> <ja...@scattered-thoughts.net<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> That part that seemed relevant to your question is compile queries on 
>> denormalised views to queries on normalised databases.
>>
>>
>> On 9 December 2013 22:07, Brian Craft <craft...@gmail.com 
>> <javascript:>>wrote:
>>
>>> Very interesting paper, thanks. Seem to be more about LINQ to SQL, 
>>> though: translating queries in a host language to sql queries against a db. 
>>> It doesn't, for example, address indexing in-memory data.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 9, 2013 11:23:36 AM UTC-8, Jamie Brandon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Take a look at "A practical theory of language-integrated query" at 
>>>> http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/recent.html . In the 
>>>> FPDays talk linked there Wadler demonstrated writing queries which 
>>>> returned 
>>>> denormalised views on tables, composing those with queries on the 
>>>> denormalised view and compiling the result into efficient sql that acts 
>>>> over normalised tables.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9 December 2013 17:56, Brian Craft <craft...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Slightly OT, but I know many of you have read OOTTP.
>>>>>
>>>>> This paper describes a hypothetical relational modeling infrastructure 
>>>>> that allows declaring indexes on and writing queries against denormalized 
>>>>> tables as though they were normalized tables. The point of this is to 
>>>>> eliminate the complexity that comes from demands of performance: 
>>>>> algorithms 
>>>>> become more brittle and harder to understand when they must be rewritten 
>>>>> for a denormalized data structure, for example.
>>>>>
>>>>> But does this infrastructure exist in the real world? I'm aware of 
>>>>> various efforts to provide relational modeling in the application, LINQ, 
>>>>> datomic, etc. But I haven't seen much in the way of indexing support, or 
>>>>> support for logical/physical schema separation. Is there some obvious way 
>>>>> to do these? Indexing in particular is critical. Hierarchical modeling 
>>>>> provides very fast look-up. Switching to a relational model without 
>>>>> indexes 
>>>>> would mean potentially scanning millions of rows for every data access.
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